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- From: apj003@cck.coventry.ac.uk (James W Bottomley)
- Subject: Re: 29 Feb 2000?
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- References: <6434@sersun1.essex.ac.uk> <722054722snz@mccomp.demon.co.uk> <11581@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:06:46 GMT
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- In article <11581@scott.ed.ac.uk> guy@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Guy Barry) writes:
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- >imcneill@mccomp.demon.co.uk (imcneill) writes:
- >
- >>I think you've all missed out one important side effect, Barry Norman's film
- >>program will be called film 00 (pronounced "film nought").
- >
-
- Film 2000 for sure... sounds much more pompous.
-
- >>Will Barry Norman still be hosting it........and why not ?
- >
-
- Probably. He'll only be 78 or so.
-
- >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.
-
- >Also, we can currently talk about '90, '91, '92, ... for short, and
- >refer to the entire decade as "the nineties", but how are we going to
- >pronounce '00, '01, '02, and what on earth will we call the decade?
- >Even the one after that isn't obvious: "the teens" maybe? Does anyone
- >know what happened at the beginning of this century?
-
- I think they were dubbed the `tens' by some and the `earlys' by others (as
- in `the early years of this great new century of progress to a new life
- for all Americans' (Teddy Roosevelt, 1906: Speech to Congress)).
-
- Suggestion for the 2000's: `the First Years of the New Millenium' or FYNM's
- could be shorthanded to fynum's or simply Fyn's.
-
- Other proposals gratefully recieved.
-
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- Jim Bottomley: ceram@uk.ac.warwick.csv ; apj003@uk.ac.cov.cck
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