Why do Americans write the date back to front?

@Backtoscratch September is the ninth month. So its 9/04/2019

@Backtoscratch I think it has to do with entering data easier. I honestly don't know. Why do you guys write it your way? I don't think it's that big of a deal.
Bigger fish to fry in the world

@Backtoscratch an expression for the word "people "

@Backtoscratch oh well. Guess you don't know why you write it that way, either, eh? 🤣

@Backtoscratch that's so weird. We're also taught to write it month, date, year here. Maybe the website that wants it differently has a different way of sorting data? That's the only thing I can think of. American stuff is behind on everything though lmao

@Backtoscratch I don't know either. Day-month-year would be less confusing.

Also, Americans, when using knife and fork are the only people who use the cross-over system - fork in right hand, knife in left, then when cutting something, they switch the knife to the right hand. I've spend some time in a few countries, Americans are the only ones who do that. Exceptionalism.

Never did that. I’m right handed. I have more dexterity to cut with right hand. @badminton

@Chevy454 Europeans will hold the fork in the left using it upside down, while cutting with the knife in the right hand.

I’m American. And that seems like the only logical way!!👍👍@badminton

@Backtoscratch Possibly because that’s the way you would say it: (for example) October 26, 2019 = 10/26/19.
That’s how it was once explained to me.

@Backtoscratch When I write it on checks, on reports, letters, etc. I post October 26, 2019. Always have, and that’s how many of us in the U.S. do it. It’s another insignificant difference in our cultures, I imagine. You’re certainly not changing us, and we’ve no desire to change you. Can’t we just accept each other’s differences and move on ?