Agree - a lot of the things that we call Americanisms were actually British 1st, eg soccer and sidewalk as two I can think of from top of my head.Americanisms don't usually bother me anymore and some - like the use of the word offence in football - are just practical, but i just do not understand this date thing. Why put the number that changes every day in the middle?
Americans always start with the month - I always have to think about it when I'm asked for my DOB.If you write September 4 2020 9/4/20 would be OK. I don't as keeping the numbers apart avoids confusion.
Americans always start with the month - I always have to think about it when I'm asked for my DOB.
Yea noticed that, 10/14/20Watching Johnson's briefing
Apart from trying to emulate USA on number of cases etc. The bloomin slides show dates
9/1/2020 9/15/2020. 10/13/2020 etc
Only a set of morons would have month/day/year in that order
It must be beyond the capabilities of Dom's misfits and weirdos.Its also very easy to change in Excel...though thats obviously a touchy subject.
me too, strange thatAmericans always start with the month - I always have to think about it when I'm asked for my DOB.
Interesting, never knew that. There's alot like that. The word' gotten' is another example of old English that is no longer used in the UK.The format in Britain was M/D/YY until world war II. The US used the British format, and still does. The UK moved to D/M/YY to communicate unambiguously with European countries during the war. Older people in the UK still put month first. I do, that's what my parents and teachers told me to do.
I'm in my 60s and I've never heard of Britain ever putting the month first.The format in Britain was M/D/YY until world war II. The US used the British format, and still does. The UK moved to D/M/YY to communicate unambiguously with European countries during the war. Older people in the UK still put month first. I do, that's what my parents and teachers told me to do.
If I was sat in your company and you mentioned offence relating to football, I would stop listening at that point. The date thing though, I can't agree with you more.Americanisms don't usually bother me anymore and some - like the use of the word offence in football - are just practical, but i just do not understand this date thing. Why put the number that changes every day in the middle?
In the USA they say offense; in the UK we say offence.If I was sat in your company and you mentioned offence relating to football, I would stop listening at that point. The date thing though, I can't agree with you more.