Originally Posted By EdisYoda I remember when growing up in the 1960's that you would go into a store on the day before Thanksgiving, and it would look normal, but the day after Thanksgiving the stores were all decorated for Christmas and they started selling their Christmas stuff. Now some stores have their Christmas displays up before they put anything out for Halloween! Disgusting!
Originally Posted By alexbook In "All About Me #11": debtee: "ohh yes Goldies LOVE washing especially socks! The only prob is when you have 2 Goldies and 1 sock! Usually the sock comes off second best, especially my eeyore ones ...." Is debtee saying that Golden Retrievers love to wash socks?
Originally Posted By sarahwithbaloo I made a mistake yesterday when I wrote the date and it made me think of one. In the UK even we refer to yesterday as 9/11 because of the sadness but we write the date differently (which has caught me out a few times) so lets use today as an example. UK 12/9/06 US 9/12/06
Originally Posted By debtee LOL Alex! I should have used a comma when answering SuzieQ! Sarah, we also write the date the same as Uk, so it's confusing whenever we receive bookings etc from WDT with the American way of writing the date, I have to stop and think about what day they are writing about. LOL The whole 9/11 date was also a bit different for us in Australia, as that was happened when we were already on the 12th Sept and not on the 11th.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>In the UK even we refer to yesterday as 9/11 because of the sadness but we write the date differently (which has caught me out a few times) so lets use today as an example. UK 12/9/06 US 9/12/06<< I think that the US is unique in putting the month first. I think the for English speaking countries it makes sense to put the month first, since we tend to say: September 11, as opposed to "the 11th of September" which is the norm in most Romance languages.
Originally Posted By markedward I've occasionally seen, and kind of like, 12 IX 06. It just makes the month different and easier to know which order is being used. I forget where I've seen this.
Originally Posted By CrouchingTigger Everyone *should* be using ISO 8601 format for writing dates. So it would look like "2006-09-11". Sometimes, when I think someone may get confused, I use a hybrid that has developed among us 8601 users: "2006-Sep-11". That's pretty unambiguous.
Originally Posted By alexbook US: shopping cart UK?: trolley I ran into this one (almost literally) the other day. A fellow shopper refered to my "trolley" and I didn't know what she was talking about. I'm guessing from her accent that she was English, but I'm not entirely sure. ----- >>I think the for English speaking countries it makes sense to put the month first, since we tend to say: September 11, as opposed to "the 11th of September" which is the norm in most Romance languages.<< I remember a South African asking me why Americans write, e.g., "October 24" and say "24th October." I tried to explain that we *don't* say "24th October," we say "October 24th."
