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Re: dd/mm/yyyy is the way to go, imo
Old 06-06-2009, 11:49 AM   #12
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Default Re: dd/mm/yyyy is the way to go, imo

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Originally Posted by manasecret View Post
Well for one, I've never heard of saying the month as a number in regular speech. Do you really say "The Second of the Seventh"?

I would say (and as far as I know this is the typical way throughout the U.S.) is exactly as I wrote it -- August Thirtieth, Nineteen-Eighty-Four (perhaps shortened to just Eighty-Four). Which matches to the way we typically write by numbers -- 08/30/1984.
I have always said The Second Of The Seventh yes. I will say the Second Of July but not very often.

I dont usually speak my own language properly though so I will say July the Second on occasion if asked when my birthday is. So I suppose I contradict myself there.
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