Do you ask for an 'expiry date' or 'expiration date' of a credit card?

Question

Some credit card transactions ask for the expiration date, which to some people sounds as if the credit card is breathing out!

The verb expire means to cease, to end, to come to finish or to breathe out.

The noun expiration means the state of doing these things.

Which is correct: expiry date or expiration date of a credit card?

Please explain.

Expiry = http://www.thefreedictionary.com/expiry

Answer 1

If you are in the US, ask for expiration date.

If you are in the UK, ask for expiry date.

Expiry, which is a perfectly good word meaning, in this usage: 'the termination of a time or period fixed by law, contract, or agreement', is rarely used in the US but is quite common in the UK.

In the US, expiration, meaning: 'the fact of coming to an end or the point at which something ends' is used.

Answer 2

Expiration date on a credit card isnt referring to breathing lol.... Expiration is the term I've always heard used and always used, and always been asked for.

Answer 3

I think if you looked a little deeper into the origins of the cards you would find the answer.
In the U.S. we will find the word: expire. While on the cards from just about anywhere else it will be: Expirey.

Answer 4

Expiration date. Expiry is not a word.