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A Word to the Wise

Penultimate

By Mark Morgan Ford · · 1 min read
refers to the next to the next to the last. As I used it above: “If wealth building is on your do-do list for 2023, these recommendations are a good place to start. (Including, by the way, the antepenultimate one on his list!)"
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