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Okay, now I'm the one with my dates muddled up. We're talking about the eighteenth
century not the Normans. I'm knocking the Americans for the way they write dates
and at the same time I'm getting my centuries mixed up. But still eighteenth century
Royal Court, Normans, Germans, whoever, I don't think we needed them to tell us to
write the date in a logical order. Using a style such as "the third day of December
in the year two thousand and two" seems to be the most basic, logical and direct
way of refering to a date in English. My guess is that something like this was the
original style which has been trimmed down, throwing out a word or two here and there.
My guess is that it was later, and mainly in North America, that the day and month
got inverted. Now I feel like a moron.
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Ahhh you feel like one Jim but we still view you as a normal person! I like your
posts!
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Thank you, Sybill. That makes me feel a lot ... well, a lot more normal.
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