[WikiEN-l] Re: Do we really want to confuse every American who reads the Wik

[Daniel Ehrenberg]

>>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).

you could say "the second of march, two thousand three".  Sometimes I say it 
that way.

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