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- From: sdl@cs.bham.ac.uk (Simon D Levitt)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 15:30:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.095709.13507@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
- >In article <CC.92Nov19092817@arran.dcs.ed.ac.uk> cc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Chris Cooke) writes:
- >>
- >>I'm sure people will soon start saying "Twenty One" for 2001, and so on.
- >>Much easier, if a wee bit ambiguous.
- >
- >Completely ambiguous! "Twenty one" is short for 1921 or 2021 -- it can't
- >be used for 2001 as well. (And "Twenty One -- A Space Odyssey" just
- >doesn't have the right ring to it...)
- >
- Lets start with a question....
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- How do you say 1901???.... Nineteen One?... I don't!, I say 'Nineteen O One'.
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- So it seems to me that people will say 'Twenty O One', no problem there!
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- Simon.,
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