Webi  +  293639 Wed, 15 Nov 06 10:10 PM Can you please tell me how do you write dates in British English? Webi Joined on Fri, May 19 2006 New Member 11 Dates, British English

	Tam Sadek  +  293693 Thu, 16 Nov 06 01:38 AM Actually having looked at the link above, I don't agree with it... 10th March or 10 March is spoken as: "the tenth of March" March 10th or March 10 is spoken as: March the tenth (UK) March tenth (USA) - American speakers, please confirm... However, when writing the date in numbers: 10/3/2006 = Tenth of March in the UK, but = October (the) third in the USA Hence when people talk of 9/11 it means: September 11th... whereas is UK English this would normally mean 9th November had it not been for the consequences of that terrible day. Hope that helps... Tam Sadek Joined on Wed, Oct 4 2006 Full Member 265 The more you see, the less you know... Dates

	Marius Hancu  +  293709 Thu, 16 Nov 06 02:49 AM Better, perhaps: Writing the Date http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/time-date.htm Marius Hancu Vocabulary, Dates

	Tam Sadek  +  299426 Fri, 01 Dec 06 04:45 AM Much better! The only problem with this one is that the UK and US English examples used in Formats A, B, and C are both used in the UK and not just the USA. Hence in the UK we can write either: A the Fourteenth of March, 1999 or March the Fourteenth, 1999 B 14th March 1999 or March 14th, 1999 C 14 March 1999 or March 14, 1999 The latter of the two in the above examples is not exclusively used in the USA. I do wish people would stop inventing differences between UK versus US English when both alternatives are used in the UK! Tam Sadek