I tend to disagree. The only people I know who use American date format pf mmm dd are either heavily influenced by American culture, media and other sourced like these, or are actually from a country which uses mmm dd date formats. The vernacular that I’ve experienced over 3 states and 5 cities on the east coast of Australia is “day month”.
And I likewise have never heard anyone have a strong preference in conversation on this. The only thing I would say is odd is the lack of ordinal suffix, it should be January 26th.
I think the lack of ordinal suffixes seems to be an increasingly (non-format-specific) common thing across many date formats and date vernaculars. I still add it when Im saying dates out loud or writing emails (eg “26th January” vs “26 January”) because it sounds less mechanical and robotic.
Probably doesn’t help that I’m autistic and omitting tiny little details like that give me eye twitches… Lol
prettygorgeous@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I tend to disagree. The only people I know who use American date format pf mmm dd are either heavily influenced by American culture, media and other sourced like these, or are actually from a country which uses mmm dd date formats. The vernacular that I’ve experienced over 3 states and 5 cities on the east coast of Australia is “day month”.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
And I likewise have never heard anyone have a strong preference in conversation on this. The only thing I would say is odd is the lack of ordinal suffix, it should be January 26th.
prettygorgeous@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
I think the lack of ordinal suffixes seems to be an increasingly (non-format-specific) common thing across many date formats and date vernaculars. I still add it when Im saying dates out loud or writing emails (eg “26th January” vs “26 January”) because it sounds less mechanical and robotic.
Probably doesn’t help that I’m autistic and omitting tiny little details like that give me eye twitches… Lol