Is there any mistake if I read the date like this?

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love-you-mom

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I know reading the dates depends on where we live and
on our culures but I have one question please.


03/5/2013
The third of May 2013.
We can also read the month before the day but:

Is there any mistake if I read it like this;
Three May 2013
and is this common?
 

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No, that would be the third of May. Or May third.

(Or March fifth, for Americans.)
 

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I know reading the dates depends on where we live and
on our culures but I have one question please.


03/5/2013
The third of May 2013.
We can also read the month before the day but:

Is there any mistake if I read it like this;
Three May 2013 Yes
and is this common? No
Regardless of how you've written; and assuming it's the 3rd of May, if someone asks you what date it is, you can say:
"It's the third of May, 2013" or "It's May the third, 2013." [Or "It's May third" in US, as Dave has pointed out]

You seem to be aware that 3/5/2013 in the fifth of March in USA.
 

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If you say "three", then you would also say "five".

Sometimes when asked for my date of birth, I say "Seventeenth of May, nineteen forty-two" and sometimes I say "Seventeen, five, [nineteen] forty-two".

In normal circumstances, though, it would be said as described in posts #2 and #3.

(By the way, that's not really my date of birth. I'm not so silly as to bandy my personal details around on the net!)
 

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Useful and nice replies.
Thank you so much.
 

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Can I add this question:

What about these ways of writing the date
especially if I want to write it in short way

3 Jan. 2013

or

3rd Jan. 2013
 

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Can I add this question:

What about these ways of writing the date
especially if I want to write it in short way

3 Jan. 2013

or

3rd Jan. 2013

Just use the bare numeral. We say "the third of January" but you just write "3 Jan."
 
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