Why Do Americans Write Dates : Month-Day-Year?

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Published on August 1, 2017 by Tex Hollywood

No one seems to know why Americans first started putting the month first. It has been hypothesized that it is simply because at certain times it’s more convenient to first know the month than the day for context, and year being less significant to know first in some contexts has it ending up last.

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