2020年10月30日 · "on the 5th of November" is practically just removing the word day from the reference. As in "on the 5th (day) of November." It is used everywhere and even though it could be understood a few different ways it is the most correct. "on the 5th November" seems to me to more be dependent on the month and if not year.

2014年8月23日 · @WS2 In speech, very nearly always. In writing, much less so. I think what may be going on is that one just assumes that “June 1” is pronounced “June First”, or “4 July” as “the Fourth of July”.

2015年3月31日 · I've met the following phrase: Something happened on February 12-25, 2010. It means that some event started on February 12th and ended on February 25th.

to which George replies, "I plead the fifth!" The O.P. simply wants to know, is there another (perhaps informal) equivalent, since it would be presumptuous to expect the phrase would be widely used outside the US, since "the fifth" originates from the …

To some extent, it depends on the font you are using and how accessible its special features are. If you can do full typesetting, then you probably want to make the th part look different from the 20 part, just like they do here:

2018年1月11日 · 5th = quinary; 6th = senary; 7th = septenary; 8th = octonary; 9th = nonary; 10th = denary; 12th = duodenary; 20th = vigenary. These come from the Latin roots. The -n-ones come as well from Latin but this time are distributive adjectives, "one each, two each, etc."; they are always used in plural. They were sometimes also used in a sense roughly ...

2011年8月16日 · This is not good English. Either it was written by somebody for whom English is not a native language, in which case I wouldn't necessarily conclude anything about his interpretation from the text, or it was written in a hurry by someone who meant to put (you have until 18 August) in parentheses, in which you should deliver it by 23:59 on 18 August.

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2013年3月5日 · Although, by definition, “before Tuesday” actually means “by Monday at the latest”, many people still confuse “by” (up to AND including) and “before” (up to BUT excluding).

2010年12月9日 · By most definitions, the date changes at midnight. That is, at the precise stroke of 12:00:00. That time, along with 12:00:00 noon, are technically neither AM or PM because AM and PM mean "ante-meridiem" and "post-meridiem", and noon and midnight are neither ante- …