• kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    What Americans are calling people idiots for saying (day) of (month)? We say it both ways all the time. 4th of July, July 4th… it’s not a complicated thing.

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      17 hours ago

      It’s like saying USAians don’t have a sense of humour. Some USAians are MAGAt knob heads, some are perfectly reasonable people. More or less like anywhere else.

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      14 hours ago

      That is a weird one: every other date is “normal” order but for some reason this is an exception. Also weird that we call it with backward date more often than its actual holiday name

      • July 4 is a normal date
      • Independency Day is the name of the holiday
      • so why do we usually refer to it as “Fourth of July”
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        13 hours ago

        We don’t say July 4 because that’s a normal date, we don’t say Independence Day because there are so many of those on different days for different countries.