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How to Pronounce Dates in Wedding Invitations
The year is pronounced 2000 and 23 in Britain and 2023 in America. Americans tend to think British English sounds more formal, and they want their invitations to sound special. There are two kinds of numbers you can use to talk about a specific day: an ordinal number, and a cardinal number. Ordinal numbers represent a place in a series like 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. When writing out a full date in the American style, you put a comma between the day and the year. Some sources make exceptions for years but it wouldn't be completely out of line to write with 2023 written as a number instead of words.
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