be 1976? Not 17 or 1876? Precisely what confusion does this prevent? venqax on April 6, 2011 5:51 pm sorry for the ddoouubbllee post. abby on April 6, 2011 8:13 pm venqax: Precisely what confusion does this prevent? Well, not so much the month or day, but the year is critical when it comes to years that can span a century. I'm a medical coder, and the reports came over on software. Some of the procedure codes are age-specific. If a patient is 102, the software thinks she's 2 years old. If a claim goes to the insurance that way, it can be denied if the procedure code is one of those age-specific codes, because the insurance gets a claim for a two-year old with an adult procedure code. I wish that all dates would be switched to the year first, as that is the most important number. When I file things in my computer, I put in the year first, then the month, then the day. That's the only way that they are in a semblance of chronological order. Peter on April 6, 2011 11:04 pm For Americans, the vowels in pot (rhymes hot, not, cot) and in hover (does rhyme with cover, lover) are entirely distinct. I know they're distinct, but it's not the same as the British "pot", etc.; standard American "pot" seems to be the same vowel as "father" (just shorter): /?/ (which makes it sound like "part", to me). I think /?/ is missing in