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:::::::I seem to recall that [[Alex Trebek]] used to say years that way. Maybe it was a Canadian thing. ←[[User:Baseball Bugs|Baseball Bugs]] <sup>''[[User talk:Baseball Bugs|What's up, Doc?]]''</sup> [[Special:Contributions/Baseball_Bugs|carrots]]→ 11:13, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
:::::::::Only in the most formal contexts; but see the 1973 song, [[Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five]] which I suspect used that style to aid with scansion. [[User:Alansplodge|Alansplodge]] ([[User talk:Alansplodge|talk]]) 18:48, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
::::::::::An example of this very formal date usage is in this [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-4897-national-day-prayer US Presidential Proclamation]:
::::::::::{{xt|"In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-two..."}}
::::::::::[[User:Alansplodge|Alansplodge]] ([[User talk:Alansplodge|talk]]) 18:58, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
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