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The document explains the conventions for writing and speaking dates in the USA, including the format of month-day-year and common abbreviations for month names. It also provides guidelines on how to express years, including specific rules for years ending in 00 and those in the 21st century. Additionally, it offers examples of how to ask about the date and how to state it in various formats.

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Dates

The document explains the conventions for writing and speaking dates in the USA, including the format of month-day-year and common abbreviations for month names. It also provides guidelines on how to express years, including specific rules for years ending in 00 and those in the 21st century. Additionally, it offers examples of how to ask about the date and how to state it in various formats.

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Dates

In the USA it is common to write the month first and to put a comma before the year.

 March 30, 2004.

The longer names of the months are often abbreviated as follows:

 Jan ‐ January
 Feb ‐ February
 Mar ‐ March
 Apr ‐ April
 May
 Jun ‐ June
 Jul ‐ July
 Aug ‐ August
 Sept ‐ September
 Oct ‐ October
 Nov ‐ November
 Dec ‐ December

To ask about the dates, we can say:

 What’s the date today?


 What date is it?

Today is February 8th, 2019. (the most general way)

It’s February the 8th.

It’s the 8th.

It’s Friday the 8th.

Today is August 24th, 2021.

It’s August the 24th.

It’s the 24th.

It’s Tuesday the 24th.


How to say the Years:

 Normally divided into two parts:

10/60 ten sixty

16/52 sixteen fifty‐two

19/41 nineteen forty‐one

20/17 twenty seventeen

 When the year ends in a number between 1 and 9 you say O (the letter) + number:

1602 – sixteen o two

1508 – fifteen o eight

1809 – eighteen o nine

 When the year ends in 00, you say the number before and hundred:

1200 ‐ twelve hundred

1600 – sixteen hundred

1500 – fifteen hundred

 2000 – two thousand


 2001 ‐ two thousand and one
 2002 ‐ two thousand and two
 2003 ‐ two thousand and three
 2004 ‐ two thousand and four
 2005 ‐ two thousand and five
 2006 ‐ two thousand and six
 2007 ‐ two thousand and seven
 2008 ‐ two thousand and eight
 2009 ‐ two thousand and nine
 2010 ‐ two thousand and tem

AFTER 2010 we have 2 options:

 2012 ‐ two thousand and twelve

OR

 20/12 – twenty twelve

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