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whopkins@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu (Mark) wrote in message news:<alies2$voj$1@uwm.edu>...
> "Don H" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> writes:
> >I've often wondered at American logic re the presentation of dates as -
> >month-day-year.  I can understand : day-month-year, and its reverse of :
> >year-month-day, because these show a progression from smallest unit to
> >largest, or vice versa.  But month-day-year?  Or is it just that the US has
> >to be different from everyone else?
> 
> Actually, we were wondering the same about Europe's weird dating
> conventin of putting the month and date in backwards order: is it just
> that Europe and its former empires have to be different from everyone else?

You mean Europe, Africa, Most of Asia, South America and Australasia 
just have to be different from everyone else. How difficult of this
small minority.
Bye the way, all of North America was part of European empires too.
 
> Not just that but also with abbreviations, oftentimes, especially if not in
> English, e.g., a "National Front For The Liberation Of Eschenstein" might
> be rendered as FLENTOF, instead of NFFTLOE.
> 

Oftentimes?

> Makes you wonder if they also drive on the wrong side of the streets
> anywhere over there...

That's Napoleans fault I'm afraid.