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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by ethbr0 on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:18PM (#31813700)
As an American, same. I was wondering where the weird month-first came from and figured it might have been verbal first, then codified in writing.
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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by irrational on Monday June 20, 2022 @05:37PM (#31816355)
At first I wondered if it had something to do with word order in English, but it sounds like other English speaking countries don’t follow this pattern.
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Re:Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines by Tagbert on Monday June 20, 2022 @11:17PM (#31819448)
Don’t currently “follow this pattern”.

US English has several grammatical and pronunciation characteristics that were common in UK English about 300 years ago. Including being largely (but not totally) rhotic.

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