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I often get people questioning or making fun of it, but I always have good examples to prove why it's the correct way. So let's see how many opinions/beliefs I can convert online.
I have hundreds of examples/ways of explaining why, but for brevity will mention just a few.
American Time
3/31/2014 or the more formal 2014/3/31
It's the correct way because when someone stops you on the street and asks what time it is, you do not say, "it's 45 (seconds) and 23 (minutes) past 8 (hours)." Maybe some do say, "it's 23 past 8." But more correctly, people say "it's 8:23."
As in, no matter the real world method of organizing columns and lists, you always hold the slower moving number first, and go down from there. So YEAR then MONTH then DAY is the proper way. Colloquially, that is MONTH then DAY.
Plenty of other real world examples involving time. Like stop-watch result: 4:24 (4 seconds, 24 hundredths of a second.) Not the smaller, faster moving number first, then the larger one.
When you write lists and point forms in spreadsheets etc, you organize them as...
1.01
1.02
1.03
etc
You always hold the slower/bigger number first, and the smaller/faster moving numbers come after.
Plenty of examples out there.
American Words
It's motor, not motour. Etc with many other words in the British/Australian English that still use "or" instead of "our." These French remnants are actually worse than Americanizations to hold onto. Should be color, armor, odor, etc.
Center is another example. Centre would be pronounced "sahn-tre" when in English it should be pronounced "sen-ter."
I have hundreds of examples/ways of explaining why, but for brevity will mention just a few.
American Time
3/31/2014 or the more formal 2014/3/31
It's the correct way because when someone stops you on the street and asks what time it is, you do not say, "it's 45 (seconds) and 23 (minutes) past 8 (hours)." Maybe some do say, "it's 23 past 8." But more correctly, people say "it's 8:23."
As in, no matter the real world method of organizing columns and lists, you always hold the slower moving number first, and go down from there. So YEAR then MONTH then DAY is the proper way. Colloquially, that is MONTH then DAY.
Plenty of other real world examples involving time. Like stop-watch result: 4:24 (4 seconds, 24 hundredths of a second.) Not the smaller, faster moving number first, then the larger one.
When you write lists and point forms in spreadsheets etc, you organize them as...
1.01
1.02
1.03
etc
You always hold the slower/bigger number first, and the smaller/faster moving numbers come after.
Plenty of examples out there.
American Words
It's motor, not motour. Etc with many other words in the British/Australian English that still use "or" instead of "our." These French remnants are actually worse than Americanizations to hold onto. Should be color, armor, odor, etc.
Center is another example. Centre would be pronounced "sahn-tre" when in English it should be pronounced "sen-ter."
