Why are dates (at least in America) express in Month-Day-Year format? How did that come to be?
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Seems like Day-Month-Year or Year-Month-Day would make more sense. And it's like that in a lot of other countries... (Also, any help classifying this question into subjects would help - not sure what to put up there.)
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Answer:
The form is actually an import from the UK where the Month-Day format was used till the early 20th century. Of course the rest of the world has moved on to a non-ambiguous format. I suspect it follows the spoken word, where it is more common to say, for example, June 21st. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date#Gregorian.2C_month-day-year
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