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Articles on topics with strong ties to a particular English-speaking country (see Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Strong national ties to a topic) should generally use the date format most commonly used in that country. For the United States this is MDY (July 4, 1976) For most other English-speaking countries it is DMY (4 July 1976).
This order is used in both the traditional all-numeric date (e.g., "1/21/24" or "01/21/2024") and the expanded form (e.g., "January 21, 2024"—usually spoken with the year as a cardinal number and the day as an ordinal number, e.g., "January twenty-first, twenty twenty-four"), with the historical rationale that the year was often of lesser ...
[f] From 1155 to 1752, the civil or legal year in England began on 25 March ; [10] [11] so for example, the execution of Charles I was recorded at the time in Parliament as happening on 30 January 1648 (Old Style). [12] In newer English-language texts, this date is usually shown as "30 January 1649" (New Style). [13]
20fed Mai 1999 or 20 fed Mai 1999 (The suffix indicates an ordinal number, like "th" in English.) The month–day–year order (for example "Mai 20, 1999") was previously more common: it is usual to see a Welsh month–day–year date next to an English day–month–year date on a bilingual plaque from the latter half of the 20th century.
Because people sometimes say “Happy New Year’s,” it’s easy to think that’s the right way to spell it. But the proper name of the holiday is actually “New Year’s Eve” or “New Year ...
daily regimen) (darker than [comparative]) (DC, direct current) (de rigueur) death knell (deciding how) (deep-seated) (kelvins) (depending on) (depending on whom you)
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English had also borrowed large numbers of words from French, and kept their French spellings. The spelling of Middle English is very irregular and inconsistent, with the same word being spelled in different ways, sometimes even in the same sentence. However, these were generally much better guides to the then-pronunciation than modern English ...