Is there any mistake if I read the date like this?

[love-you-mom]

I know reading the dates depends on where we live and
on our culures but I have one question please.


03/5/2013
The third of May 2013.
We can also read the month before the day but:

Is there any mistake if I read it like this;
Three May 2013
and is this common?

 

[SoothingDave]

No, that would be the third of May. Or May third.

(Or March fifth, for Americans.)

 

[Raymott]

I know reading the dates depends on where we live and
on our culures but I have one question please.


03/5/2013
The third of May 2013.
We can also read the month before the day but:

Is there any mistake if I read it like this;
Three May 2013 Yes
and is this common? No

Regardless of how you've written; and assuming it's the 3rd of May, if someone asks you what date it is, you can say:
"It's the third of May, 2013" or "It's May the third, 2013." [Or "It's May third" in US, as Dave has pointed out]

You seem to be aware that 3/5/2013 in the fifth of March in USA.

 

[emsr2d2]

If you say "three", then you would also say "five".

Sometimes when asked for my date of birth, I say "Seventeenth of May, nineteen forty-two" and sometimes I say "Seventeen, five, [nineteen] forty-two".

In normal circumstances, though, it would be said as described in posts #2 and #3.

(By the way, that's not really my date of birth. I'm not so silly as to bandy my personal details around on the net!)

 

[love-you-mom]

Useful and nice replies.
Thank you so much.

 

[love-you-mom]

Can I add this question:

What about these ways of writing the date
especially if I want to write it in short way

3 Jan. 2013

or

3rd Jan. 2013

 

[SoothingDave]

Can I add this question:

What about these ways of writing the date
especially if I want to write it in short way

3 Jan. 2013

or

3rd Jan. 2013

Just use the bare numeral. We say "the third of January" but you just write "3 Jan."

 

[love-you-mom]

Just use the bare numeral. We say "the third of January" but you just write "3 Jan."

OK, Thanks again.