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Veni Vidi Vici
Native in: Russian 
, Ukrainian
Works in: Russian to English, English to Russian, Ukrainian to English, and 5 more.
"27" October 2008 (date format)
Is such format acceptable in English or I MUST write
October 27, 2008
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Carol Gullidge
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| 4 +1 | 27th October 2008 |
~Ania~
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Nov 4, 2008 19:37: SirReaL changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Non-PRO (2): humbird, Charlesp
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poetically precise prose with... panache
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English
27 October 2008 is fine
The guardian style guide in fact advocates a different format, which is not the one I tend to use :
dates
Our style is July 21 2008 (no commas), and has been since the first issue of the Manchester Guardian on May 5 1821 (it is occasionally alleged that putting month before date in this way is an "Americanisation").
In the 21st century but 21st-century boy; fourth century BC; AD2007, 2500BC, 10,000BC; for decades use figures: the swinging 60s or 1960s
http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide/page/0,,184835,00.html
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Ioanna Daskalopoulou
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thanks Ioanna!
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David Moore (X)
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thanks David!
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Dana Rinaldi
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thanks Dana!
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Peter Skipp
: This is gaining ground. The formal British (gov't etc) format would be "October 27th, 2008"
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thanks Peter! although I think 27th is more used in speech. I see it's used in Ania's BBC headline, but not immediately below it (presumably the non-spoken bit?)
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William [Bill] Gray
54 mins
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thanks William!
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Paula Mangia Garcia Terra
: I agree
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thanks Paula!
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humbird
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thanks humbird!
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conejo
: I think it would be best to find out what the target audience is. If you know it is for a British English audience, use the British format. If it is for a US audience, by all means use the AE format. :)
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thanks conejo! And, definitely agree about finding out whether it's for US or UK market.
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27th October 2008
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David Moore (X)
: Add the "th" only if the ordinal follows the month //The BBC doesn't have an awful lot of proper English speakers any more, from what I see and hear...///But if anyone did, I guarantee they'd not listen....
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Thanks, David. I guess noone told the BBC ;-) http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/fromthewebteam/2008/10/... I guess noone told the Lancashire Telegraph either.. http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/comment/
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Sheila Wilson
: Day, month, year for British English, the suffix (st/nd/rd/th) is entirely optional and dying out as it's not always easy to get your word processing tool to put it as a superscript as it should really be
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Thanks, Sheila :-)
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