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Old 08-15-2011, 02:04 PM   #344
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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl View Post
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.

I have never (or infrequently enough to not remember) heard anyone calling the fourth of July anything other than the fourth of July, unless of course they called it Independance Day.
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