July 8th

What is so different about the 8th of July this year, you ask?



At five minutes and six seconds after 4 AM on the 8th of July this year,
the time and date will be 04:05:06 07/08/09

 

Sorry, Darlene, it won't. It'll be 04.05.06 08/07/09. The actual time/date this happens is on the 7th of August 2009 at 5 minutes and 6 seconds past 4am.

It is plain wrong putting the month before the day. It is nonsensical. Sorry, but you know I'm right.

 

Joey, the way the date is expressed in the USA has always been month, day, year. Go figure. No one way is right or wrong, just a difference in notation.
Our monetary system is likewise very different. I couldn't begin to estimate shillings, pounds, etc.:-D

 

I'd say that our UK way is right and the US way is wrong

 

I remember reading when the same thing happened at 12:34pm on May 6, 1978.

And here at work (government), everything is DD-MM-YY.

 

No, your way is wrong. Pure and simple.

Our monetary systems aren't that different. 100 pence/cents in 1 pound/dollar.
We ain't used shillings since 1971. Shillings? What about duckets? Or groats?

Common sense. :confused

But we know enough to realise that the day comes first in a date.

 

I agree and using 2 different systems worldwide creates all kinds of confusions about what's exactly the day and month, except when days are over #12. Day-month-year is just logical sequence. :-D

 

Come on UKers' admit the truth You are all Bass Ackward. :-D
Especially JOTS. :rasberry

 

Because of the sorting system on our office server, I've been doing everything year-month-day for so long everything else looks funny! LOL

Today would be 09-04-28 in my world...if you start every document saved with the date like that, it's WAY easier to find things that are all called the same thing! Particularly helpful in contract negotiation notes. :-D

 

At least there is a "reverse" sequence to your dated documents. :-D

 

But that's how it's spelt in ENGLISH. By the by, it's centre, theatre, and a car wheel has a tyre. :neener

:cry

Thanks for the support, Kes. :kissmy

Do you use ENGLISH spellings in Canada, oma, or do yous spell your words wrong, too?

You're just clouding the issue, Sarge. That's now the 9th of April 2028. :confused

 

Yep for the most part although we've adopted some from our neighbors. It's confusing sometimes when one learned proper English at high school. How do you write the word neighbor? From what I remember it was neighbour.

 

I'm like that. :-D

 

That's always confused me, why in America they speak English yet they change the spellings and how some words are pronounced. I declare that they should speak 'American' as it's ruining our language!

 

roflmao

 

One example cars.

A hood is something you wear on your head.
A trunk is what elephants have.
And the fumes come out the exhaust not a tailpipe:neener

 

Or demolishing it word by word.

I concede that point. Some Brummies I know, I thought they were Russian. Right, Kes?

 

You walk on a path not a sidewalk.
You put rubbish in a bin not a garbage can.
And you eat chips not French fries:neener

 

A bonnet is worn on the head, as in Easter Bonnet, not a storage unit in auto.
Chips are small pieces of wood that fly from a tree when hit with an ax.
One of your guys DID invent the crapper, I believe.

 

Finally!

A Thread With Substance!!!

:-D

 

We call them crackers too, a cookie is a sweet biscuit - another Americanism infact!

 

That's what we get at work as well. It's cheaper.

 

Half and half is more like a latte.

 

Where I live a half 'n' half is half man, half kebab. :yum

 

Dat's because it's 'Amglish'...roflmao

I can confirm that we only call the savoury, salted variety of biscuit a cracker. The sweet one are either "bickies" or "cookies". ...Of course, we used to call fireworks, "crackers", too, .

Since I lived in both countries when I was younger, I tend to confuse most of the local yokels, here. LOL

Heck, we didn't even decide what WAS correct English, until Webster and his Dictionary, and that is subject to constant change.

 

A bonnet has never been a storage unit in a car, rather the cover for the engine bay.

 

An urban myth, Genus.
The flush toilet was invented in 1596 by John Harrington.
Thomas Crapper didn't invent the toilet, but was an English plumber from the late 1800s who held nine patents for plumbing products.

 

Deja vu?

 

If it had been half man half pizza.
Then it would be Rikky:-D

 

Good Grief your a contrary bunch! Everyone married? LOL