Richard Grevers wrote:
That's the first time I've been asked to consider Americans to be an opressed minority :-)
Didn't you mean to say "...asked to consider citizens of the United States..." ha ha. ;-)
2 March 2003 is logical, natural to speech, and (so long as the month name is used) unambiguous.
I asked this question on a talk page, and I'm basically just ignorant on this issue: is '2 March 2003' natural to speech?
Americans almost never speak that way. We would say "March the Second, Two Thousand and Three" or "March Second, Two Thousand and Three". We would never say "Two March Two Thousand and Three".
--Jimbo