[Tig] End Credits at the cinema - topic drift

[Bob Kertesz]

>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."


What about the decades? Last century, we often referred to "the twenties" or
"the sixties" and so on.

Are we going to reuse them for this century? And if so, what is the current
decade called? Is it "the oughts", "the naughts", "the ohs" or something else?

--Bob

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