[Tig] End Credits at the cinema - topic drift

[Rob Lingelbach]

good question, topic swerve noted.

what I note is that the year 1900 was never, even when it happened,  
called
"one thousand nine hundred" ..was always referred to as "nineteen  
hundred."

when we arrived at 2000, it was a lot easier and natural to say,  
conversely
to what happened with 1900, "two thousand" rather than "twenty hundred."

So we had a year of inculcation in "two thousand," which gave rise to
"two thousand and one" etc.   However, I too have noted this new  
tendency
toward "twenty-oh-seven" and it might supplant the rather more verbose
"two thousand and seven."

Rob

On Mar 4, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Dominic Case wrote:

>
>> 2001 a Space Odyssey
>
> entirely off-topic, but since the film is mentioned . . . .
>
> Now we are well into the new century, how do people refer to the  
> year?  "Two
> thousand and seven" is still common, as was two thousand and six  
> etc. But
> I'm hearing a strong move towards this year being called "twenty - 
> o- seven".
> Last century I guess "nineteen -o-seven" was pretty universal.

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