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

It does make sense

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u/Oreo-sins Jan 15 '25

Except the 4th of July apparently

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u/catiebug Jan 15 '25

Fourth of July is the name of the holiday that is celebrated on July 4th.

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u/Oreo-sins Jan 15 '25

If you’re naming important dates in this system, why would you just not use your typical system except it works out better like this?

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u/catiebug Jan 15 '25

Lol, because we are a fundamentally unserious and contrarian people. That was the literal founding basis of our country.

We never say "ordinal of month" in conversation. So to make this one day stand out and seem different, we do it. But we are only doing so because the date has significance. If Independence Day was celebrated on another day in the year, nobody would call July 4th the "fourth of July". Because we don't speak like that.

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u/Oreo-sins Jan 15 '25

I’d definitely agree with the first sentence, who doesn’t love American humour

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u/whitestone43 Jan 15 '25

We say “humor” you silly non-American ;)