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🗓️ 8 July 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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0:00.0 | We're recording this on the morning, which is very rare for us, the morning of the 4th of July. |
0:07.4 | How come we get this one right? |
0:09.8 | Americans call this the 4th of July, which is the way you should pronounce dates. |
0:14.2 | But everything else is, you know, March 17 or, you know, July 7 or whatever. |
0:19.9 | You know, this is something that I agree with you on, right? |
0:22.5 | Like, the number comes before the month. |
0:24.9 | Yes. |
0:25.4 | Even though my life is just spent writing dates the American way, right? |
0:29.9 | Like, I write all my dates 7 slash 28 slash 17 or whatever. |
0:34.8 | That's how I do my dates now. |
0:37.1 | Because that's how I think, because that's how I have to |
0:39.8 | communicate to people. You know, we'll talk about this maybe briefly. Lately, Americans are getting |
0:45.7 | a lot of things wrong, but this one, the date formatting is just, it's been wrong forever. It took |
0:50.6 | be a long time for me to see the light, to see the light of the British and |
0:54.9 | rest of the world's way of doing, you know, day, month year rather than month, sorry, yeah, I did get |
1:01.0 | that right, day year rather than month day year. Yeah, because it's a way people talk, right? |
1:07.1 | Like, yeah, you got 4th of July, right? You know, that is the right way of saying it, right? Like the 4th of July right you know you that is the right way of saying |
1:12.4 | right the 4th of July and that's how people say dates the 25th of March it's very |
1:17.4 | rare I think that people say March 25th I now as I say this prepare myself for every |
1:23.4 | single person who says dates that way to tell me okay I don okay. I don't need to know. But this is just |
1:30.6 | one of those things that is one of the U.S. is maybe the only thing that is different between the |
1:36.0 | U.S. and the U.K. that me and you agree on. That might be. I think we agree your accent is way |
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