Robert Zakiev
How do you properly pronounce "July 1st"? Hey, guys! I've always known that you should pronounce dates like this: July 1 = July the first. However, I recently came across a video where an American says "July one". I was wondering if both choices are acceptable, or is the latter gramatically incorrect?Here is the video (at 0:00:59): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWKooZtR84Y
Nov 29, 2015 10:05 PM
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We tend to say 'July the first' or 'the first of July' in British English. American English speakers often omit the article and say just 'July first'. I have never heard anyone saying 'July one'. It sounds strange to me. I suspect that if you started saying 'July one' people would presume you were making a mistake and would correct you.
November 29, 2015
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I never heard it before. It's unusual. I'd never say it that way. It's close to being "wrong." However, if I heard it, I'd understand it and it probably wouldn't bother me. The people in this video are speaking in a very relaxed, unprepared, spontaneous way, goofing around and having fun, and obviously not thinking very carefully about speaking model English. It is common to write the date in either of two styles, "July 1, 2015" and "July 1st, 2015." If I weren't thinking much about what I was saying, and if someone told me the date _in writing,_ I might just deliver it the same way it had appeared in writing. The most common way to say it aloud would be "July the First" or "July First." The other order is preserved in the customary way we say the date of Independence Day, which is usually "the Fourth of July." It's common, but old-fashioned. It is fairly common to read it aloud numerically, especially if we are dictating a date and including the year: "six, one, twenty-fifteen." Hence September 11th, 2001 becomes "nine-eleven," the customary way to refer to the date of the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York.
November 29, 2015
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I have never heard anybody say "july one" or the date in that way before. It's usually either "July the first" or "the first of July". :)
November 29, 2015
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July one ???? I have never head that in my whole life. We say July the first, or you could also say the first of July.
November 29, 2015
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