Monday 10 June 2013

"d.d." latin for "today's date"

language tip of the day: "d.d." is the latin term ("de dato") that can be used for "today's date" or "d.d. January 1st, 2014" (on the date of ...)

"d.d." is used in Norwegian ("dagens/dags dato" [today's date]), but i wasn't aware, until now, that it can also be used in English, although it doesn't seem to be used much.

Sources:
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O25-dd1.html ("today's date")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_%28D%29 ("of the date")
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/De+Dato ("this day")

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