Question for British list members/PS for Goddlefrood

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" <sistermagpie 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.
> 
> Magpie:
> Are you just making a joke with the word "pressure" or referring to 
> some conflict between how they'd want to refer to it and how they feel 
> they should? Do you just mean that because Americans say 9/11 or 
> September 11 and we talk about it more than anyone else and use that 
> shorthand so frequently they picked it up?

Geoff:
Not in the least. Many UK readers feel that our press - particularly the 
older tabloids (i.e. not the traditional broadsheets which now also have 
tabloid editions) - tend to pick up Americanisms and fall into the habit 
of using them without putting things in UK English.