At 06:16 AM 3/3/03 -0800, Jimbo wrote:
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".
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).
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Vicki Rosenzweig
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