I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?
I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?
It annoys me even though I'm still in the U.S.
Edit: For everyone saying CVs and resumes are different, that might be literally the case, but that is not how job applications are using them. I just went to this one:
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MM/DD/YYYY would annoy me wherever it’s from, because it’s wilfully perverse.
It's from the country that elected a pervert, so...
Do you have any idea how little that narrow it down?
It matches the speech order in English. Today is December eleventh, 2024.
Not in nz
Where did you get this idea from? In British English 11th of December is more common. I'm open to the idea that American English does it differently and that's fine but to assert that the entire English speaking world does it like that is incorrect and ignorant.
In Canada we usually say Tuesday December 11th, like if someone is giving us an appointment date. It's colloquial, I guess, a little more succinct.
Is there a Lemmy community for /c/ShitAmericansSay
Maybe where you live, but no. Today is actually the 12th of december. Yanks like to say thats how it is but I have never, or rather rarely, heard them call their independence day July 4th. It's always 4th of July. So, no. Its not the speech order.
Independence Day is the sole exception in common speech. I suspect this is a older style carried forward into today. Any other date, like today's, is Month Day (ordinal). Halloween is said October 31st, not the 31st of October. The latter is also much longer.
Cinco de Mayo is of course not in English.
Sure. But we also say "September 11th" when referring to the world trade center attacks.
4th of July is the exception in American English.
Nope. It's the 12th of December . Just like the 4th of July, or having Christmas "on the 25th"
Disclaimer: am American.
I say the 4th of July because it's a holiday. July 3rd, 5th, etc are all month/day. I don't know why just what "sounds right" and it's what I was taught. It threw me for a loop working with people over seas when I saw 13-10-24. We quickly noticed the confusion and swapped to spelling months out