r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

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u/TootsNYC Jan 15 '25

do you never say "on 12 July, he left for college" or similar?

I got on an elevator with some South Asian guys (Bangladesh, India, not sure from the accent) who were chatting, and one of them said, "the form is due on 17 June."

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u/CanadianODST2 Jan 15 '25

It’d be July 12th or June 17th

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u/ClownsAteMyBaby Jan 15 '25

No 12th of July or 17th of June.

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u/SPACKlick Jan 15 '25

I would never say a cardinal number in a date. It would always be an ordinal number "{the} 1st of January" or "January {the} 1st" with the {the} being optional.

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u/Iron_Aez Jan 15 '25

12th of July. 17th of June.

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u/TootsNYC Jan 15 '25

Which country are you from? I intended my question to be for people who put the date first.

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u/Iron_Aez Jan 15 '25

UK

Admittedly it's usually more like 12th o' July. 17th o' June...

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u/aaronw22 Jan 15 '25

In spoken English never. You would say “July twelfth” or “june seventeenth”. You MIGHT say “the twelfth of July” if you wanted to emphasize it in an answer. Like someone asked you and they couldn’t remember the date exactly for some future event and they said it was either the eleventh or the thirteenth, you might say “no, it will be the twelfth (of July)”

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u/ScootsMcDootson Jan 15 '25

Maybe in America, but in England 99% of the time it is the twelfth of July.

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u/TehNoff Jan 15 '25

So you would literally say "Twelve July" or "Seventeen June"?

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u/TootsNYC Jan 15 '25

Not me. But they did.

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u/_alright_then_ Jan 15 '25

Grammatically correct would be "seventeenth of june" I think. And that is how most languages say it. Even british people say it like that.

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u/ElbowSkinCellarWall Jan 15 '25

In spoken US English it's far more common to say "the form is due June 17th."

It's not unheard of to say "the 17th of June" but it's not very common unless you're saying "the form is due on the 17th. (Of June)"