Dates and Months British English American English Differences

Dates and Months

British English American English

Differences word pronunciation spelling

Differences Dates 1 st January 20 xx British English 1 January 20 xx the first of January

Differences Dates January 1 st 20 xx American English January 1, 20 xx January first

Differences Dates 一九九六年三月二日 British English American English 日，月，年 2 nd March, 1996 March 2, 1996 月，日，年

Summary: 1. 在美式的写法中，1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd的st, nd, rd有时是不使用的。 由于日期书面表达不同，读法也不一样。 如1987年 4月20日，英式的写法是 20 th April, 1987， 读成the twentieth of April, nineteen eighty-seven； 美式的表达是April 20, 1987， 读成April the twentieth, nineteen eighty-seven。

Summary: 1 January 7 July 2 February 8 August 3 March 9 September 4 April 10 October 5 May 11 November 6 June 12 December

Summary: 1 st first 9 th ninth 2 nd second 10 th tenth 3 rd third 11 th eleventh 4 th fourth 12 th twelfth 5 th fifth 13 th thirteenth 6 th sixth 14 th fourteenth 7 th seventh 15 th fifteenth 8 th eighth 16 th sixteenth

Summary: 17 th seventeenth 25 th twenty-fifth 18 th eighteenth 26 th twenty-sixth 19 th nineteenth 27 th twenty-seventh 20 th twentieth 28 th twenty-eighth 21 st twenty-first 29 th twenty-ninth 22 nd twenty-second 30 th thirtieth 23 rd twenty-third 31 st thirty-first 24 th twenty-fourth

Exercise: write the following dates in words. (British English and American English) 04. 11. 1903 01. 1990 24. 12. 2022 02. 09. 1998 03. 2019 14. 02. 2009 21. 08. 1978 07. 12. 2044

Exercise: How could you express these times? 5: 50 5: 52 7: 00 7: 37 9: 08 13: 15 13: 17 14: 03 21: 46 23: 20 19: 25