At 08:11 PM 3/2/03 -0800, Sean wrote:
On the contrary, the form 2 March 2003 simply IS
correct in American
English. The Chicago Manual of Style prefers "that in all text,
including notes and bibliographies, exact dates be written in the
sequence day-month-year, without internal punctuation." Rule 8.36.
There is no one body entitled to name US usage, and the University
of Chicago Press certainly isn't. CMOS is what they want for the
books they publish, no more and no less. Others often find it useful: but
when I worked for a magazine that followed Chicago on most things, we set
dates in the form March 3, 2003, not 3 March 2003.
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Vicki Rosenzweig
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