Is "5 May 1818" pronounced as the fifth may, eighteen eighteen?"

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Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883)
 

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Hi,

I believe it reads "May the fifth, eighteen eighteen".

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...or 'the fifth of May' or 'May fifth' or 'Fifth May', but always 'eighteen eighteen'.

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You would hear also, at least in AmE, "five May eighteen eighteen" and "fourteen March eighteen eighty-three".
 

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You would hear also, at least in AmE, "five May eighteen eighteen" and "fourteen March eighteen eighty-three".

You will not hear that in BrE. We don't say "five May". We always use the ordinal "the fifth of May" or "May the fifth" and just occasionally "May fifth" though that still sounds very AmE to my ears.
 

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I think it's a quirk of our usual way of writing May 5, 1818. We'd say "May [the] fifth, eighteen eigheen for that, but when we run into the way the rest of the world writes it, we're more likely to say "five May."
 

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I think it's a quirk of our usual way of writing May 5, 1818. We'd say "May [the] fifth, eighteen eigheen for that, but when we run into the way the rest of the world writes it, we're more likely to say "five May."

It's also written/spoken that way in the U.S. military.
 
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