‘And’ is one tiny syllable. To me it flows much better than just blandly saying the numbers. There’s nothing better about the American version - they’re just variants in different dialects.
I am surprised to see so many people saying ‘3 June’ instead of 3rd in whatever format. I had no idea that people really said dates that way. Surely it’s not just because it’s written as 3 June? Everyone knows that the 3 there is an ordinal, not a cardinal.
June 3, 2010 is “June third two-thousand ten”, so obviously 3 June 2010 is “Third June two-thousand ten.” I can’t believe I’m the only one who’s said that.
June 3, 2010 would be June third twenty ten to me, but if I wrote it myself, I’d probably write June 3rd, not just June 3.
3 June 2010 looks annoying and foreign to me, and my brain will just not process it as third of June, it’s three June twenty ten.
I would say the third of June, twenty-ten.
3 June 2010 is the way the US military has written dates since Christ was a Corporal. And it’s pronounced “three June twenty ten”. So it’s hardly some weird foreign thing.
Like like using 1400 (pronounced “fourteen hundred”) for two hours after noontime, it’s not foreign; just not common in the civilian part of the US.
The large number of veterans being created these last few years may yet bring critical mass to geting the civilians to convert to this far more logical method of writing & speaking dates and times.
Which also has the small advantage of being more compatible with (most of) the rest of the world.
Seeing the guy who wants to read third June, which makes absolute no sense, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Also, the official reason not to use “and” is that it is reserved for indicating the decimal point. I’d say having a built in way to refer to decimals would count as something better. Of course, most people just say X-point-Y, despite the fact that this makes it harder to know what the number after the decimal point actually means.
“It’s going to be 120 degrees out today.”
Or, when I’m visiting family who don’t live in Phoenix, “June third, two thousand ten.”
I don’t say “and”.
June third, ten.
Er, it is foreign to me, since I’m not American. It’s not ‘wrong,’ just odd.
I’ve never ever heard anyone say ‘and’ to indicate a decimal point. If someone read out 24.9 as ‘24 and 9,’ I would think they were adding up for some reason - it wouldn’t occur to me that the and meant a decimal point. Another dialect difference, I guess, though the change in meaning is quite important in this one.
You’re on a loser trying to claim that any dialect version is actually ‘better.’
Other.
June 6th, Twenty Ten.
I was responding to the Americans who said it sounded foreign to them. Certainly there are many non-US countries which use various orders of the three parts of a date & various pronounciations of them. It seems to me that far more non-US countries use day-month-year order versus the month-day-year format favored by US civilians.
Why does the 3 get pronounced as 6th?
The thread title was How do you pronounce this date?, and none of the choices in the poll are currently correct, so…
Ah OK, thanks. When I saw the title, I thought the ‘this’ in the title was referring to the date in the OP.
I hadn’t even considered that it meant the current date. It seemed an odd way to express the current date.
It wasn’t the order that was odd, but saying ‘3’ as ‘3’ rather than 3rd.
I meant foreign as strange to me, not foreign as from another land.
3 June Twenty-ten