NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/uk/misc/561

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From: [e-mail] (Guy Barry)
Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (James W Bottomley) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Guy Barry) writes:
>
>>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", so where's the mysterious point
>>where the naming scheme changes?
>
>2010.

How can you be so sure?  I've heard both "twenty ten" and "two
thousand and ten".

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