[Dave Logan]

Is there any way to do a wildcard search that strips out ordinals from dates (e.g. "19th September 2007" - "19 September 2007", "March 21st, 2007" - "March 21, 2007") but does *not* strip out ordinals from anything that is not a date (e.g. leaves "19th century" alone)?

I was using the search string:
([1-9]{1,})([a-z]{2})
and replace string
"\1"
until I discovered it was stripping the ordinal from things like 19th century, which I don't want it to do.

Dave