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In conversation would you say "I'll be going home on April fourth" or "I'll be going home on the fourth of April"? From the Midwest, USA and I'd would always r
by germinalphrase 10y ago
In conversation would you say "I'll be going home on April fourth" or "I'll be going home on the fourth of April"?
From the Midwest, USA and I'd would always refer to the date in the first way (and subsequently, it is logical to write the date in month/day format).
Still agree that day/month/year makes more sense.
- jdietrich 10y ago>In conversation would you say "I'll be going home on April fourth" or "I'll be going home on the fourth of April"? The latter. "April fourth" would sound very odd in a British accent.
- jessaustin 10y agoIt sounds fine in an Irish accent: "Early morning, April fourth, shot rings out in the Memphis sky..."
- Symbiote 10y ago"On the fourth of April" when spoken, "on 4 April" when written. Example with lots of written dates: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/29/article-50-brexit-letter-read-full/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/29/article-50-brexit... (but I could equally choose a formal document, like my birth certificate, or something very informal, like a handwritten note). When spoken, the "of" is always included, and the number is always an ordinal (-th etc).
- ewams 10y agoI say both. You coming over on July 4th for our big Forth of July Celebration? And year/month/day/hour/minute/second is best as its largest to smallest and if you name your documents / fields in this format it sorts better.
- Nomentatus 10y agoThere are a few choices of order in use in various parts of the world. Only one is unambiguous as a string of numbers: Year, month, day (where year is four digits, not two.) Because year/day/month does not seem to be in use anywhere.