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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Most posts regarding film releases using american format are most likely just copying it from a US site and not converting it.
People don't use Fall instead of Autumn, gasoline instead of petrol etc.
I've always interchanged dd/mmmm and mmmm/dd when writing, yet still use dd/mm/yy
It's like saying 8 45 or a quarter to nine.
As for this government getting the date wrong, come off it, what do you expect? They couldn't even get the start of the 3rd millenium right.
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I was more talking about the official film posters you get in papers and on billboards etc that now all display the date in July 26th rather than 26th July.
I'm sure if you went back to a paper from 100 years ago all the dates would be displayed day month no matter which format they used.
Spelling is creeping in more and more disc, licence, realise are others. I've not checked yet but would be interesting to know if on the US copy a say Harry Potter the book does it use realise etc or do they change it into realize ?
it may only be small things to start with but they all add up to even more Americanisation that slowly erodes the British way of life. A lot of people don't even realise it.
It's one of the things I do admire the US for as they made sure things are done their way and stand up for their values and way or writting and saying things, where as us Brits don't.
I was reading an article in one paper about the Airbus which is being built in collaborating between the UK, France and Germany, but in this article ALL the entries for money were in US dollars even though it was an English newspaper. The US wouldn't have put up with an article being in pounds but I have to put up with dollars in my English paper