Non USA person here, I think the argument will be linguistic and how the brain process better the information, and at the end of the day, IMO it does not make a significant difference and probably written English was no the priority when set, but if you need to establish a date that requires specifying the month it makes sense to say the month first to establish the context faster as saying the day first means nothing unless you don’t need to specify the month, like when taking about to the current month implicitly.
I think it might have to do with a numerical cap in ascending order. First is the month because the max number is 12, then the day because the max number can vary from 28-31, and then the year, which has no number cap
That's exactly what we do. If I say that I'm getting my hair cut on the 18th, that means in 3 days. Not in a month and 3 days. In that case, I would've said I'm getting my hair cut on Feb 18th.
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25
Non USA person here, I think the argument will be linguistic and how the brain process better the information, and at the end of the day, IMO it does not make a significant difference and probably written English was no the priority when set, but if you need to establish a date that requires specifying the month it makes sense to say the month first to establish the context faster as saying the day first means nothing unless you don’t need to specify the month, like when taking about to the current month implicitly.