# How would you pronounce this date? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 3, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822 "2010-06-03T19:34:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/1 "2010-06-03T19:34:00Z")
How would you pronounce… “3 June 2010” I keep seeing dates styled this way in Wikipedia and _I just don’t know what to do._ ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/2 "2010-06-03T19:34:48Z")
Three June Twenty Ten ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/3 "2010-06-03T19:36:08Z")
Three June Two Thousand Ten If I were reading it aloud to my wife, I’d say, June 3rd twenty ten. Other possibilities are also things I might use depending on the context. ---
**Author:** ![Transhumanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Transhumanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Transhumanist)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/4 "2010-06-03T19:36:19Z")
Well literally it would be: “Three, June, Two thousand ten.” But that just sounds weird. Normally I pronounce dates like this: “June third, two thousand ten.” ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/5 "2010-06-03T19:38:01Z")
Being me, I’d sing (badly)… _It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day…_ ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/6 "2010-06-03T19:46:43Z")
> [@Transhumanist](#): > > Well literally it would be: > “Three, June, Two thousand ten.” > > But that just sounds weird. Normally I pronounce dates like this: > “June third, two thousand ten.” Well, yes, so do I (June third), but when you see it in print as “three June” you gotta flip it around in your head and… well, I’ve always stumbled over this. And obviously I assumed everyone would pronounce the year as “two thousand ten” and didn’t give any other options there. “Twenty ten” sounds all science-fictiony, and I left my silver jumpsuit with the fetching chevrons on it at home. _“Ladies and gentlemen! Please welcome! The Fetching Chevrons!” Haahhhhhhhh!_ ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/7 "2010-06-03T19:48:06Z")
Third of June, twenty-ten. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/8 "2010-06-03T19:50:05Z")
I’d pronounce it the American way, even though logically it makes no sense at all. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/9 "2010-06-03T20:14:36Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Being me, I’d sing (badly)… > > _It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day…_ This made me laugh as I actually call this Billy Joe McAllister day. Anyhoo, I say “June 3rd, ough ten” or maybe even “ought ten” if I’m feelin’ persnickety. ---
**Author:** ![Gustav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Gustav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gustav)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/10 "2010-06-03T20:25:10Z")
Whatever format they choose, they day it represents is still june third, 2010. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/11 "2010-06-03T20:36:26Z")
June third, two thousand and ten. Yes, I said ‘and’. Whatchu gone do about it?? ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/12 "2010-06-03T20:38:06Z")
> [@Olentzero](#): > > June third, two thousand and ten. > > Yes, I said ‘and’. Whatchu gone do about it?? Give you eighty and six lashes with a wet noodle 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/13 "2010-06-03T20:40:33Z")
3 June, Twenty-Ten; or June the 3rd, Twenty-Ten. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/14 "2010-06-03T22:36:33Z")
“The third of June, twenty ten” ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/15 "2010-06-03T22:45:26Z")
If I was reading aloud a passage that contained this date, I would say “three June, two thousand ten” (or perhaps “three June, twenty-ten”), because that is what is written. I would also assume that the writer was European, though I don’t know if there is actually any basis for that assumption. If I were simply looking for the date of some occurrence and saw that printed, I would probably say “June 3rd, twenty-ten” ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/16 "2010-06-03T23:06:15Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > “The third of June, twenty ten” This. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/17 "2010-06-03T23:46:57Z")
The third of June, two thousand AND ten. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/18 "2010-06-03T23:49:14Z")
Third of June, two thousand and ten. ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/19 "2010-06-04T00:01:17Z")
I selected choices 1 and 4. It would be June third (June the third?). I selected 4 because I was thinking “twenty-ten” but on further thought, I never say that and I don’t really hear anyone else saying it either. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/20 "2010-06-04T00:24:06Z")
Third June, two thousand and ten. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822.md?page=2)