E-26 What’s the Date
Today’s lesson is about dates. There are many different ways of expressing a date in English. Native English speakers often use a variety to say the same thing, so it is important for you to know what they are talking about when they say a date to you.
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TOPICS: Dates | FUNCTIONS: Dates, Different, ways, of, saying
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Comment by Lucia — May 9, 2007 @ 9:24 am
Hi!
I’d like a few more details about dates.
So if I’ve understood correctly we can say: “It’s October twenty fifth” (or: “It’s the twenty fifth of October”). But don’t we also say: “It’s October the twenty fifth”?
Another question is about the writing. I think we write: ” Tuesday October, 25th 2007″ in any case. Is that true? Is there any other possibilities?
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Comment by Loïc — May 15, 2007 @ 5:07 pm
Loïc.
Hi! Sorry for taking so long to get back to you, but great question! You are right, you can say both “It’s October twenty fifth” and “It’s the twenty fifth of October”. The second one(the latter one) is something you hear much more in Europe than in the US. The difference come from how we WRITE the dates. In the US 6/3/07 means, June 3rd, 2007. In Europe, they would reverse the month and the date and would write the same thing as 3/6/07. Therefore, when we SAY our dates, we say them a little bit differently.
If you decide to add the day of the week. you were close but you missed one comma; it should be written as: Tuesday, October 25th, 2007
I hope that helps and definitely write back with any other questions!
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