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- From: mgcbo@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Charles B. Owen)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: THE NEXT DECADE?
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 15:31:07 -0600
- Organization: Educational Computing Network
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- References: <19394@mindlink.bc.ca> <C0n9Ly.318@unx.sas.com>
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- In article <C0n9Ly.318@unx.sas.com> saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski) writes:
- >
- >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?
- >
- >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.
- >
- >It's year zero....NAUGHT.
- >
- I prefer AUGHT (Zero). Then we can say the AUGHTS. This has a much
- less negative ring to it.
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