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Originally Posted by vans
I have just finished reading "The Pacific" and thought of this thread.
The dates are written as, "June 6" or "July 1". I read them as "6th of June" or "1st of July." I assume Americans would read these dates as "June Six" or "July One"? In everyday conversation is that how Americans generally express dates? Are there regional differences?
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For your example, we typically would read/speak them as June 6th or July 1st. We formally write dates as June 6, 2011 for instance. Day is simply a number. We sometimes write dates as June 6th or July 1st, usually when there is no reference to a year. We do also sometimes (but less frequently) verbalize or write a date as "the 6th of June" for example. There doesn't seem to be any reason why I might say or write one over the other, just whichever travels from my brain to my mouth first.