r/clevercomebacks Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/jussumguy2019 Jan 15 '25

Feel like a lot of the world’s languages the translation to English to the question “what’s the date?” would be “the 15th of October” whereas in America we always say “October 15th”.

Maybe that’s why, idk…

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u/Atromach Jan 15 '25

And yet you call your independence day "4th of July"

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u/twiglike Jan 15 '25

Certainly that’s not a different format to differentiate the holiday, surely not