6 points
DD-MM-YYYY is better, but still causes issues. ISO 8601 though, now that’s a superior format.
2 points
Also the date format used organically in East Asia because of the cultural habit of writing big to small.
English tends small to big, so I don’t know where yanks got their date format from.
2 points
Can you elaborate on that last part? I fail to think of anything where its natural for English to go from small units to big units.
3 points
Addresses is the main one.
But also when talking about objects and categories, e.g. “the oak is a type of tree”, not “trees have a type which is oak”.
