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All-figure dates are written differently in Britain and America, since British people put the day first while Americans generally start with the month. So for example, 6.4.02 means '6 April 2002' in Britain, but 'June 4, 2002' in the USA. The longer names of the months are often abbreviated as follows:
A.
The names of decades (e.g. the nineteen sixties) can be written like this:
~~~~
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the 1960s.
For the position of dates in leiters, see 146. For full stops in abbreviations. see 2.
2 speaking
30 March 1993 ='March the thirtieth, nineteen ninety-three' (AmE also 'March thirtieth .. .') or 'the thirtieth of March, nineteen
ninety-three' 1200 ='twelve hundred'
1305 ='thirteen hundred and five' or 'thirteen 0 (lao/) five' 1498 = 'fourteen (hundred and) ninety-eight'
1910 = 'nineteen (hundred and) ten'
1946 ='nineteen (hundred and) forty-six'
2000 ='two thousand'
2005 = 'two thousand and five'
To armounce the date, It's is used. It's April the first.
To ask about dates, we can say for instance:
What's the date (today)? What date is it? What date is your birthday?
3 BeandAD
To distinguish between dates before and after the birth of Christ, we use the abbreviations BC (= Before Christ) and AD (= Anno Domini - Latin for 'in the year of the Lord'). BC follows the date; AD can come before or after it.
Julius Caesar first came to Britain in 55 Be.
The emperor Trajan was born in AD 53 / 53 AD.
153 dead. died and death
Dead is an adjective.
a dead man Mrs McGinty is dead That idea has been dead for years.
Died is the past tense and past participle of the verb die. Shakespeare died in 1616. (NOT ShflfeestJeare tIetlf1 •• •) She died in a car crash. (NOT She is tlettti in ...)
So far 50 people have died in the fighting.
Note the spelling of the present participle dying (see 561). Death is a noun meaning 'the end of life'.
After his death his wife went to live in Canada. For expressions like the dead (= dead people), see 17.
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