Thursday 4 August 2011

Your Questions About British Newspapers

Mary asks…Why do British newspapers write the date the American way?On the front of nearly every British newspaper the date is written (for example) September 22nd 2010, yet I thought the original British way to say the date was 22nd September 2010?

I'm doing an essay about the increasing use of Americanisms in the UK for A-Level English Language and I was wondering if the date has always been written that way in Britain, or if that is something that has drifted over the Atlantic in the

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