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- From: saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: THE NEXT DECADE?
- Message-ID: <C0n9Ly.318@unx.sas.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 15:27:33 GMT
- Article-I.D.: unx.C0n9Ly.318
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- In article <19394@mindlink.bc.ca>, Marg_Meikle@mindlink.bc.ca (Marg Meikle) writes:
- |> So whaddya think. If the last decade was the eighties and this is the
- |> nineties, what will we call the next decade?
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- Back when I was a boy (a few years after the end of the Mesozoic era),
- we used to call the numeral zero a "naught". In that case, the next
- decade might be called the "naughties". You have to admit, it has a ring
- to it.
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- It's year zero....NAUGHT.
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