Wednesday, December 30, 2009

How Are We Going To Say “2010″? A Website Comes Just In The Nick Of Time.

How Are We Going To Say “2010″? A Website Comes Just In The Nick Of Time.: "Newsflash: Tomorrow is the last day of 2009. That means we’re moving into the first new decade of the 2000s. And we have a decision to make.

Say “2009″ outloud. Chances are you’re saying “two thousand and nine.” But if you think about it, that’s weird. Say “1909″ outloud. Chances are you’re saying “nineteen-oh-nine.” It makes some sense, since we weren’t going to pronounce “2000″ as “twenty hundred,” but for whatever reason, going forward, we never moved to something like “twenty-oh-one” for “2001″ and so forth. A new website is urging us to do just that for the next decade."

I've been on this bandwagon since twenty-hundred!

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