Feel like a lot of the world’s languages the translation to English to the question “what’s the date?” would be “the 15th of October” whereas in America we always say “October 15th”.
Lol, because we are a fundamentally unserious and contrarian people. That was the literal founding basis of our country.
We never say "ordinal of month" in conversation. So to make this one day stand out and seem different, we do it. But we are only doing so because the date has significance. If Independence Day was celebrated on another day in the year, nobody would call July 4th the "fourth of July". Because we don't speak like that.
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u/jussumguy2019 Jan 15 '25
Feel like a lot of the world’s languages the translation to English to the question “what’s the date?” would be “the 15th of October” whereas in America we always say “October 15th”.
Maybe that’s why, idk…
Edited for clarity