# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/21 "2010-06-04T00:47:24Z")
June third, twenty-ten. Oh whoops I need to read for comprehension. “The third (of) June, twenty-ten” is how I would read it if it were formatted with the day before the month. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/22 "2010-06-04T00:53:56Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > 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._ Does sounding out “$5.99” also cause you consternation? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/23 "2010-06-04T01:04:55Z")
The third of June, two thousand and ten. I’m not known for my verbal brevity. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/24 "2010-06-04T02:42:52Z")
“Three June twenty-ten”. I’ve seen a lot of British dates formatted this way. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/25 "2010-06-04T02:57:17Z")
If you force my hand I’ll say “three June twenty ten”, but my natural way would be “June the third twenty ten”. “Two thousand” died in 2009. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/26 "2010-06-04T03:37:20Z")
June Third, Twenty-Ten ---
**Author:** ![purple\_granny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@purple\_granny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purple_granny)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/27 "2010-06-04T03:54:47Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Being me, I’d sing (badly)… > > _It was the third of June another sleepy dusty Delta day…_ Have to admit, that song has been in my head allllll day! ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/28 "2010-06-04T12:16:48Z")
The third of June two thousand and ten, or twenty ten, pretty much interchangeably, but never missing “the” or “of” from either, or “and” from the former. Because I in full sentences nearly all time. ---
**Author:** ![SecondJudith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@SecondJudith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecondJudith)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/29 "2010-06-04T13:23:18Z")
> [@ToeJam](#): > > June Third, Twenty-Ten Likewise. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/30 "2010-06-04T13:24:17Z")
The programmers’s way “two thousand and ten, oh six, oh three”. or “20100603”. Most significant digits firsts, easily sortable, everybody should do it this way, by **law** , heck, by _ **Constitutional Requirement.** _ the number of man-hours lost fixing bugs caused by the user’s insistence in ridiculous and obsolote date formats would be enough to program an Artificial Intelligence that can win at Civilization without cheating. grrrrr ---
**Author:** ![rayman5321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@rayman5321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayman5321)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/31 "2010-06-04T14:16:01Z")
3 June Twenty Ten ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/32 "2010-06-04T14:35:22Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Third of June, twenty-ten. +1 ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/33 "2010-06-04T15:33:04Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Third of June, twenty-ten. Seconded. It was nineteen-ten a hundred years ago and nineteen centuries plus one makes twenty. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/34 "2010-06-04T15:38:27Z")
Third of June, twenty-ten. ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyMac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@JohnnyMac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyMac)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/35 "2010-06-04T16:31:18Z")
June 3rd, twenty-ten. > [@panache45](#): > > I’d pronounce it the American way, even though logically it makes no sense at all. What’s the American way? Is it the way I just said it (with the month and the date the wrong way around - I never understood that; dates should be listed from _smallest_ time unit to _largest_; 3/6/2010)? ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/36 "2010-06-04T16:41:49Z")
> [@JohnnyMac](#): > > June 3rd, twenty-ten. > > What’s the American way? Is it the way I just said it (with the month and the date the wrong way around - I never understood that; dates should be listed from _smallest_ time unit to _largest_; 3/6/2010)? no no \*no \*_ **NO** _ Largest to to smallest, so you can order them alphabetically and they still are ordered. sheeesh… ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyMac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@JohnnyMac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyMac)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/37 "2010-06-04T16:49:06Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > Largest to to smallest, so you can order them alphabetically and they still are ordered. sheeesh… I take it back. This is better. 6/3/2010 makes _no_ sense, though. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/38 "2010-06-04T17:16:34Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > 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._ I wouldn’t pronounce it at all, actually. Since I’m not in the habit of reading Wikipedia (or anything else, usually) out loud, I can just understand the date in question without necessarily having to assign phonics to it. Maybe that’s just me. Another site I frequently visit, though, uses the all-numeric European system, which does often trip me up. This would be shown “03/06/2010,” which my brain interprets as “March 6th” before I can correct myself. In conversation, I’d probably be inclined to say, “June third, twenty ten.” ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/39 "2010-06-04T18:00:17Z")
> [@Cazzle](#): > > Third of June, two thousand and ten. Same here. It still bugs me when I hear Americans say ‘two thousand ten’ (or other such numbers) without the ‘and.’ It’s not incorrect, just a dialect variant, but it grates. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822/40 "2010-06-04T18:11:36Z")
> [@scifisam2009](#): > > Same here. > > It still bugs me when I hear Americans say ‘two thousand ten’ (or other such numbers) without the ‘and.’ It’s not incorrect, just a dialect variant, but it grates. “Two thousand and ten” is a bit of a clumsy mouthful when spoken aloud, though. “Two thousand ten” flows a bit better to both my tongue and ear. Personally, I’ve kind of settled on “twenty ten,” and I suspect this will eventually become the norm. After all, eleven years ago nobody was saying “One thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-date/541822.md?page=3)