When is Christmas Day? It is (on) 25th December.

[dewedfrost]

Hello! Can you help me, please?
If I had to answer to such questions
"When is Christmas Day/Valentine's Day?",
which would be the correct form?
"It is on 25th December" or "It is 25th December"
"It is on 14th February" or "It is 14th February"
I have some doubts; for example, when I'm asked about my birthday, I answer "It is on 15th September" and "on" does sound natural to me, but in the previous sentences I can't choose the right options: are they both acceptable?
I'm referring to the written form (British English), not to the way you read the date; I mean I read as follows : "It is on THE twenty-five OF December"
Thanks a lot beforehand!!!:-D

 

[Tarheel]

Christmas is the 25th of December. My birthday is the 4th of July. Valentine's Day is the 14th of February.

 

[dewedfrost]

Thank you! But do you think that the use of "on" is completely wrong?
From a grammar book:
"October 31st (subject)is Halloween"
But
"Halloween is on 31st October (time expression)"
Don't you agree? Thank you again!
So I should use "on"; don't you agree?

 

[Rover_KE]

Like many BE speakers, I write 'We celebrate Halloween on 31st October'; I say 'We celebrate Halloween on the 31st of October'.

However, there are several different ways of saying and writing dates.

 

[juanitoh]

Is it some kind of AE and BE difference if you say October the 31st or the 31st of October?

 

[Rover_KE]

AE normally puts the month first; BE normally puts the number first, but it's not an inflexible rule.

Click here to find many earlier threads on the topic.

 

[juanitoh]

AE normally puts the month first; BE normally puts the number first, but it's not an inflexible rule.

Yes I know, but is this also common in daily speech?
And thank you for the other topics.

 

[Rover_KE]

Yes.

 

[emsr2d2]

I chop and change willy-nilly between the word orders. Sometimes I say my birthday is on "April the tenth" sometimes I say it's on "the tenth of April".