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.
Does sounding out “$5.99” also cause you consternation?
The third of June, two thousand and ten.
I’m not known for my verbal brevity.
“Three June twenty-ten”. I’ve seen a lot of British dates formatted this way.
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.
June Third, Twenty-Ten
Have to admit, that song has been in my head allllll day!
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.
Likewise.
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
3 June Twenty Ten
+1
Seconded. It was nineteen-ten a hundred years ago and nineteen centuries plus one makes twenty.
Third of June, twenty-ten.
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…
I take it back. This is better.
6/3/2010 makes no sense, though.
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.”
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.”