Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?

• anothermember@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Where did you get this idea from? In British English 11th of December is more common. I’m open to the idea that American English does it differently and that’s fine but to assert that the entire English speaking world does it like that is incorrect and ignorant.

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  • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s american/Canadian English. We say December 11th, 2024, we write it like we say it.

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  • lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    In Canada we usually say Tuesday December 11th, like if someone is giving us an appointment date. It’s colloquial, I guess, a little more succinct.

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    • anothermember@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      We might say December the 11th as well but that’s definitely the less common of the two.

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• MrNobody@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Maybe where you live, but no. Today is actually the 12th of december. Yanks like to say thats how it is but I have never, or rather rarely, heard them call their independence day July 4th. It’s always 4th of July. So, no. Its not the speech order.

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  • brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sure. But we also say “September 11th” when referring to the world trade center attacks.

    4th of July is the exception in American English.

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  • thebigslime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Independence Day is the sole exception in common speech. I suspect this is a older style carried forward into today. Any other date, like today’s, is Month Day (ordinal). Halloween is said October 31st, not the 31st of October. The latter is also much longer.

    Cinco de Mayo is of course not in English.

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  • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The 4th of July falls on July 4th. I can assure you as someone who has lived in the US for my entire life, we say it out loud, month, day, year and we write it to match that.

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• Rogue@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Is there a Lemmy community for /c/ShitAmericansSay

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• smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Nope. It’s the 12th of December . Just like the 4th of July.

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  • Dashi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Disclaimer: am American.

    I say the 4th of July because it’s a holiday. July 3rd, 5th, etc are all month/day. I don’t know why just what “sounds right” and it’s what I was taught. It threw me for a loop working with people over seas when I saw 13-10-24. We quickly noticed the confusion and swapped to spelling months out

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    • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I work for an international company based in the US, but I am not in the US myself. I have been trying for years to get our American colleagues to use three letter abbreviations for the month to avoid ambiguity, for example in global emails. With a couple of small exceptions, I have been unsuccessful in convincing them of the need to be clear in their written communication to people in the rest of the world.

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• kaffiene@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Not in nz

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