Antepenultimate

Huh? It’s the perfect knitting word.

• “ultimate” refers to the last one of something, therefore
• “penultimate” refers to the next-to-the-last one of something;

and if you throw an “ante” on there, also meaning “before” or “prior to” (as in “antebellum”), you get

•  “antepenultimate“, meaning the one before the next-to-the-last one.

Think toe shaping.

“Knit to the antepenultimate st; K2tog, K1.”