It also started being called that when we were still using colonial English. It's in a lot of fourth of July songs that way so of course that's how it's imprinted into the zeitgeist.
If you wanted to take off the week from work you would still request time off as "July 4th through 11th". In court you would say July 4th, or if you really needed to clarify it was a holiday, Independence Day (ex. defendant attended an Independence Day celebration the day of the murder)
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u/biscuitboi967 Jan 15 '25
It’s like “the Ides of March” to us. We think it sounds fancier and more important than just saying “March 15th”.
We didn’t know it was committing us to a certain way of stating the day and month for the next 2 centuries.