Why was "le 14 juillet" marked as nearly?

Question

In a quiz, I had to write a few dates in French. I used numbers in all of them and they were marked correct.
However, my answer "le 14 juillet" was marked as "nearly", explaining that "le quatorze juillet" is correct.

Alan Graham · Accepted Answer

Although le 14 juillet would normally be correct, I think in this question you were given the hint to spell out the number, so only le quatorze juillet is accepted as fully correct.

Jim Jones · Answer

Bonjour Rene,From the lesson:-"English dates use ordinal numbers (2nd, 3rd, 10th...) while French dates require cardinal numbers (deux (2), trois (3), dix (10)...) and NOT deuxième (2e), troisième (3e), dixième (10e)...:-"This looks to me like the answer to your query.Bonne continuationJim