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- From: cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
- Message-ID: <CC.92Nov19092817@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 09:28:17 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: guy@cogsci.ed.ac.uk's message of 18 Nov 92 08:48:14 GMT
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- In article <11581@scott.ed.ac.uk> guy@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
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- Yes, I've wondered about how the years of the next decade will be
- pronounced. By analogy with "nineteen hundred", "nineteen oh one",
- "nineteen oh two", ... we ought to have "twenty hundred", "twenty oh
- one", "twenty oh two", ... but I've never heard anything but "two
- thousand" (or "the year two thousand"), "two thousand and one", "two
- thousand and two", ... . By the time it gets to 2020, though, people
- start talking about "twenty twenty",
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- I'm sure people will soon start saying "Twenty One" for 2001, and so on.
- Much easier, if a wee bit ambiguous.
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- -- Chris. cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (on Janet, cc@uk.ac.ed.dcs)
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