This was posted on the 27th August!

I know that there are plenty of people in the world who (passively, through raising awareness and combatting ignorance) fight for honourable causes.

For equality of all individuals, for the right for all individuals to live in a world unspoilt by human avarice.

For the right to education.

These are noble fights.

This is not a noble fight.

This is a petty, small-minded fight which I have tried to stop myself from fighting.

But some part of my mind, quite possibly adjacent to the grammarckle, insists that I cannot rest until I have voiced the indignation bubbling inside me.

Like an insidious virus, an illogical, incomprehensible habit has been burrowing its way into the English language, and has now reached near universal usage.

I am, of course, talking about how it is now apparently the standard to put the month beforethe date. So that dates read like this:

June 14, 2010

Instead of:

14th June, 2010

Why?! Why, why, why?

I have tried to find some sort of justification behind it, but it is insensible to basic reason.

Possible reasons are:

- Now we can instantly see the month, without having to scan the two letters before it. This saves us precious time, because we live in an age when we are processing and storing more information and data than ever before.

- ....

There is no logical reasoning behind this change, and it is even worse when applied to dates written like this:

12/08/10

becomes..

08/12/10

By that I don't mean that the 12th of August becomes the 8th of December, although it does look like that. I'm going to be the conservative in this debate. Why would we change a logical system, moving from the smallest unit of time (days) to the largest (years)?

That's a real question. If you have any ideas, let me know...