Question for British list members/PS for Goddlefrood

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
Geoff:
> > British spoken style would be "11th September 2001" with the "th" 
> included. Newspaper articles will use that or your version also. The 
> British media seem to have succumbed to US pressure and generally say
> "9/11". 
> > 
> > Being a maverick and disliking the US date pattern, I stick with the 
> > spoken style. <snip>
 
Carol:
 
> Thanks, Geoff. This is a book, though, and the British style manuals
> I've been able to find eliminate the "th" from dates.

Geoff:
Depends to what type of usage your manuals are referring. There is a 
difference between "official" documents and newspapers for example. 
I don't think people would frown over the use of the "th". I certainly 
wouldn't and would rather welcome it.

Carol:
> So I take it that the average Brit would recognize "9/11" and realize
> that it referred to the Twin Towers collapsing, but would they know
> that it referred to 11 September 2001? 

Geoff:
Yes. It's used so much by the media now.
 
> Carol, who has the uncomfortable feeling that at least some people in
> the UK think that the WTC collapsed on 9 November

Geoff:
I think we've got through that stage now.