On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
The people who use the "2 March 2003" style would say "Second March, 2003", not "Two March". It's natural to British speech (or, at least, none of my British friends seem to find it artificial when they use it).
"*The* second *of* March 2003", in fact. It being the second day of the month of March. Logical, see? :)
"March the second" sounds to my ear like a reference to another March, some time after the first one, much like "Elizabeth the second"... ;)
Oliver
+-------------------------------------------+ | Oliver Pereira | | Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science | | University of Southampton | | omp199@ecs.soton.ac.uk | +-------------------------------------------+