As I was out shopping yesterday I had a thought. Don’t worry, I was okay after the shock wore off 
On tv and films and things, I’ve almost always (if not always) heard 4th July pronounced “the 4th of July” by Americans. Which kind of struck me as a little weird since usually they’d say a date as “month/day”.
Anyway, I was wondering about this and all I got was a headache. So I thought I’d see if anyone else has a clue about this. Why is 4th July said differently than other dates?
Can anyone help?
Just a WAG: it’s been used before in the English language for special days of note, such as the “Ides of March”, and
I guess it just sets the date aside as something unique. Beside which, it goes better that way in lyrics. 
Dang, never really took note of it before. I think Ice Wolf is pretty much right though. I think we all know the holiday is technically called “Independence Day” but if you call it anything other than “The 4th of July” you could be seen as stuffy. I could make some fun WAGs about why that is.
I also suppose “4th of July” dominates 'cause it focuses on a day of celebration of liberty as opposed to breaking away from an oppressive regime(Independence). For instance, we don’t bash the English on this day, we party because we can. 
Thanks for posting folks.
I hate to hijack my own thread but… I’m gonna do it anyway.
Does anyone know why/when the Americans started to say dates as “month/day”? Or is it the English who have changed around?
Don’t know, but I see there are ISO formats in the offing that would have Americans, Brits and us Commonwealth types all changing over to yyyy-mm-dd style.
It’s enough to spark off another revolution, eh, what?
I say this every year, so bear with me…
Don’t go fourth on the 4th with a fifth, or you might not go fourth on thr fifth.
