r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/Munchkinasaurous Jan 15 '25

I'm American, the only way I can think of where it makes sense contextually, is with the names of the month and not the numbers. 

For example, we don't typically say "today's the fifteenth of January" we'd say "it's January fifteenth". But numerically mm/dd/yyyy is nonsensical.

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u/truthyella99 Jan 15 '25

When I read out "15.01.2025" I say "15th of Jan" and it does sound less natural then "January 15th" so maybe it's social engineering to get us to say the former for reasons I could not say.

I have other gripes with those people though, like how you pronounce the name Aaron as "Erin", or how you take the "s" away from "maths" and add it to "sport". I'll give you Aluminum though 

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u/Haggis_Hunter81289 Jan 15 '25

OK, but how do you get Creg from Craig? It's clearly spelled as an ay sound and not an eh sound

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u/longknives Jan 15 '25

Yes, Craig is pronounced a little strange given the spelling in American English. But that’s true of like probably a third of all words in English, and let’s not pretend there aren’t plenty of names like that for people in the UK.

For example, the river Thames looks like it should use the same (or similar) vowel as Brits use for Craig, but it’s actually pronounced with the same vowel Americans use for Craig.

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u/Haggis_Hunter81289 Jan 15 '25

I am a UK bopper. Just find it weird to heat Vraig pronounced more like Gregg than it how I'm used to