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35443	Fix negative numbers for ordinals	Siburg	S-Tornqvist Martin Jonson	"The `ordinal` template tag in `/contrib/humanize/templatetags/humanize.py` returns strange results for negative numbers. For example:
-1 becomes -1th
-9 becomes -9st
-8 becomes -8nd
-7 becomes -7rd

I think that can be regarded as a bug. I can think of following approaches for dealing with it.

0) The null option. Won't fix. Assume ordinals are not supposed to support negative numbers. I can live with that; I don't have a use case for them either. I only discovered this anomaly while running a unit test with a -1 input. But it does feel weird to knowingly have this issue.

1) Treat it as invalid input and just return the original input; similar to a `ValueError`.

2) Treat it as a positive number, and return the ordinal for its absolute value.

3) Treat it as valid input, and return the ordinal for its absolute value with a minus sign in front of it. I assume that will work for non-English languages too.

I suggest doing 3). Either way, if a decision or recommendation is made to do anything about it I can prepare a PR."	Bug	closed	contrib.humanize	dev	Normal	fixed	humanize ordinal	Siburg Martin Jonson	Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0