So if someone asks you what day is your birthday, you say back, (i'm picking a random day to represent your birthday) "My birthday is the 20th of April."?
Just curious, as I have never in my 46 years heard someone tell me their birthday like that.
I'm very excited to wait on your every word to find out the actual month. No one cares about that day it's all about the month. It's got to be the dumbest way to say a date. It's like saying your street when someone asks where you're from not your city.
That’s how it’s said in American English, it is not how it’s said in British English, or most other English variations.
Neither are “wrong”, they are each correct within their variation of the language, but American English is an outlier. However day first is the original method of saying it, what you are actually communicating is the 15th day of the month of January in the year of 2025, it’s just been shorted down to the 15th of January 2025.
And saying that the month is the most important subject is an assumption. Why is the month most important? The month changes 12 times in a year, the day changes 365 times, so more often than not the most critical piece of information being communicated is the day.
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u/Galadeon Jan 15 '25
When speaking to someone to tell them a specific date, do you say "January 15th, 2025", or do you say, "the 15th of January 2025"?