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A subscriber questions. If it is correct to use the word "first", since he believes that if so, we should also use second, third, etc.



Online Dictionary of the English Royal Academy http://buscon.rae.es/ (twenty-second edition) provides the following responses:

first.
1. Adverb. Previously, early, before all else. Also used as an adverb of order.

second.
1. Adverb of manner, unusual. Second.

third.
1. Adverb of place, rarely used. Third.

cracking.
1. Adverb of manner, outdated. Fourth.


The fifth word is not in the dictionary.


Clearly, then, that it is correct to use the word "first." The following meanings, which appear registered in the dictionary as "unusual", "rarely used" and "obsolete" in our country do not employ. When we need to prioritize something, say, first, second, third, etc., But if only we will refer to one thing, it is not wrong if we use "first", according to what it said the DRAE.

Source: Royal English Academy