Best of the Web Today used preantepenultimate in a sentence. So check this out:
- Ultimate means last
- Penultimate means second-from-the-last
- Antepenultimate means third-from-the-last
- Preantepenultimate means fourth-from-the-last
- Propreantepenultimate means fifth-from-the-last





fun!
Posted by: jim` | February 15, 2013 at 08:31 AM
I agree. I've used penultimate a bit since I first learned it maybe 30 years ago. Perhaps I'll use the others too.
Posted by: Dave Tufte | February 15, 2013 at 01:04 PM