Editing Calendar date (section)

===Expressing dates in spoken English===
In [[English language|English-language]]  outside North America (mostly in Anglophone Europe and some countries in Australasia), full dates are written as ''7 December 1941'' (or ''7th December 1941'') and spoken as "the seventh of December, nineteen forty-one" (exceedingly common usage of "the" and "of"), with the occasional usage of ''December 7, 1941'' ("December the seventh, nineteen forty-one"). In common with most continental European usage, however, all-numeric dates are invariably ordered dd/mm/yyyy.

In [[Canada]] and the [[United States]], the usual written form is ''December 7, 1941'', spoken as "December seventh, nineteen forty-one" or colloquially "December the seventh, nineteen forty-one". [[Ordinal number (linguistics)|Ordinal]] numerals, however, are not always used when writing and pronouncing dates, and "December seven, nineteen forty-one" is also an accepted pronunciation of the date written ''December 7, 1941''. A notable exception to this rule is the [[Fourth of July]] (U.S. [[Independence Day (United States)|Independence Day]]).