• g8phcon2@teacup.social
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        1 year ago

        that’s…more words, and more thought, it’s only the 4th of July because it’s a holiday preceding July 5th and following July third.

        • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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          It’s just one more syllable, or one word(no s, because it’s not plural). People prefer to say dou ble u dou ble u dou ble u instead of world wide web, and that’s even more syllables. It’s also arranged in a neat way, from day to month to year.

          it’s only the 4th of July because it’s a holiday preceding July 5th and following July third.

          That’s the issue i guess, you guys jump from one format to another and then back and that’s considered normal🤷

      • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        2nd of Dodecember

        I find it hilarious that the imaginary 14th month gets to be called “12th” because (ostensibly) the early Romans couldn’t be bothered to have winter months.

    • Masimatutu@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      In most contexts, “/” means something like “(out) of”, and “14 of 2” makes a lot more sense than “2 of 14” when describing the fourteenth of February (or February fourteenth, as you would say it).