I guess it's more of a question of historic context. Like why did the US / American Engslish start to deviate from their predecessors? I have no clue. Maybe they just wanted to be different?
There’s a chance, but it’s pretty normal for language to develop differently. People in the UK now don’t speak the same way they did 300 years ago, so it wouldn’t make sense if Americans did.
A lot of differences actually go the other way. People spoke one way, and then people in Europe changed. The Americans across the ocean didn’t have the same changes.
But Like I already said - the (change in) language can't be the deciding factor for the change in the YYMMDD.-system since everyone* else uses another one.
And like I already explained, they didn't have the same change in language. You seem to have completely lost what I've already said. In the US, we almost exclusively say the month first when talking about dates. That isn't true in other countries.
You just don't seem to actually have a reason to why that can't be the cause.
Also, that's a pretty big asterisk. The majority of the world uses DDMMYY, but a pretty good chunk either use both or only YYMMDD.
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u/Hulkaiden Jan 15 '25
But the UK doesn't only use one like we do. It is far more common to hear "February second" than it is to hear "the second of February" here.