When/why did they stop saying "th" "st" etc in adverts?

[Labboy]

Originally Posted by archibald

I don't understand this? Is it not written and spoken 12°C, twelve degrees centigrade? 12C means something quite different.

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Saying 12C still means 12 degrees C and I think it should be Celsius which is the same as Centigrade, just what we used in the lab Archibald, ie weather reading entered into the met database was entered as 12 C which I think was headed as Celsius. I may be wrong and stand corrected if I am wrong.

[Gill H]

I learned typing in 1986 and we were told then:

No rd or th, just number
No punctuation after Dr, Mr etc (or indeed etc, eg, ie)

So this is over 30 years old, not exactly sudden!

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Originally Posted by Labboy

Saying 12C still means 12 degrees C and I think it should be Celsius which is the same as Centigrade, just what we used in the lab Archibald, ie weather reading entered into the met database was entered as 12 C which I think was headed as Celsius. I may be wrong and stand corrected if I am wrong.

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Centigrade is banned in my house. Modern speak again!

I even had to get the manual out to change the default dashboard settings on my car to show Fahrenheit.

[Gill H]

Originally Posted by megaflyer

I still use 12th and never got my head around C - thankfully the majority of my friends are either living in or from USA so is Fahrenheit works. The rest can convert themselves or F off lol

I am don’t believe in Christ however I hate to see XMas or any other shortened version of Christmas - Christmas is such a lovely word it deserves to be used in full

I guess I am just an old fashioned gentleman

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Fair enough, but X is the first letter of the Greek word for Christ, and has been used since the days of the early church. I know you are not saying this, but some people who try to claim that X is somehow ‘trying to hide the Christian origins’ are completely barking up the wrong Christmas tree!

(Those are the same people who think the American custom of saying ‘Happy holidays’ is a sinister plot against Christmas - er, nope!)

I hate Crimbo though - ugh

[wdw-wanderer]

Originally Posted by Gill H

I learned typing in 1986 and we were told then:

No rd or th, just number
No punctuation after Dr, Mr etc (or indeed etc, eg, ie)

So this is over 30 years old, not exactly sudden!

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I can remember in primary school being told you don’t put full stops after Mr, Mrs or Dr because the abbreviation ends with the last letter of the word - Mister, Mistress, Doctor etc. We were also taught how to compose formal replies to invitations written in the third person, eg Mr & Mrs Blank request the pleasure of the company of...

[CarolynU]

Originally Posted by Mr Tom Morrow

Carolyn. The 12th is still in my vocabulary and I still use it in letters, speech and even texts.

My view is if a letter comes to my house and for example the first line says - ''I refer to your letter of the 12 December'' When I read it my mind turns that 12 into the 12th. hence the modern style is pants.

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I couldn’t agree more Tom. Even in notes to myself I write 12th 31st etc
Wouldn’t have dawned on me not to.

[scooby99]

Originally Posted by Mr Tom Morrow

My other pet hate is where letters (as in correspondence) are 'justified'.

I refused to sign letters done in that fashion as I wanted them 'flush left' with a ragged right margin.

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How we all differ; if I received a letter in that style, I'd think it very odd and wonder why the company was sending correspondence out with such a sloppy presentation!
Might even make me wonder if the company was as sloppy in other areas?
JMO.

[SussexFamily]

Can we say Merry Brexmas this year? Or isn’t it allowed?

[WhereIBelong]

Originally Posted by rasmus

instead they just say 22 or 12
Anyone else noticed?

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I noticed too...

The one that gets my goat is "shop the Christmas/Spring/Summer (etc) edit" as used by such establishments as Next and M&S.

[2point]

Originally Posted by SussexFamily

Can we say Merry Brexmas this year? Or isn’t it allowed?

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Macron says 'Non'