When did El Reg move to the US?
"Two years after the 7 July bombings" / "from the 7 July terrorist attacks".
What happened to traditional English phrasings such as "The 7th of July" or "July the 7th"?
Tube still lacks emergency comms
Two years after the 7 July bombings police radios still fail to work in the underground, a London Assembly committee said. A report (pdf) from the London Assembly has found that two years on from the 7 July terrorist attacks, the capital's emergency services are still without a digital radio system that works on the underground …
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Thursday 16th August 2007 19:12 GMT Anonymous Coward
It's called abbreviation ...
... get over it.
It's pleasantly ironic that you recommend the wholly-US-centric-not-used-anywhere-else-in-the-world mixed-endian month/day/year date order as a "traditional English phrasing".
Still, at least the 7/7 bombings don't have the same endianness ambiguity as the 11/9 attacks. We should be thankful for small mercies.
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Thursday 16th August 2007 21:42 GMT Mo
Endianness!?
There's no endianness or ambiguity when the month is written as a word instead of a number.
It isn't, however, correct to write “the” or “of” in the middle of a date: it's purely a spoken construct. If you want to be picky, it'd be “7th July” with proper superscripting, but I'd be surprised if an El Reg article managed that.
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