One of the things I'm probably never going to get used to is the way Americans write dates. I'm fine if the month is spelled out in letters - it's hard to go wrong there - but the convention that the month comes first throws me off if all numbers are used. Today is the eleventh of May, which I would write as 11/5/11, but here it's 5/11/11.
I look at that last one and part of me thinks it's the fifth of November, and another part has to pull back on the reins and correct myself.
The really annoying thing is that in my everyday life I come across both - this is the fault of the internet, I guess, for making both kinds of dates available. The result is that whenever I come across a date written this way, either month-first or day-first, I have to stop and think to figure out which it is. It's even worse if I have to write the date, which I've been doing recently on various immigration forms, because the only thing to stop me tripping up is my own brain, which is confused about the whole matter anyway.
Maybe it will become easier with time.
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