[Tig] End Credits at the cinema - topic drift

[Dominic Case]

>maybe "at the
>beginning of the century" is a common expression here.

Naughties works well.

I don't think I've heard it in the context of 1901-1909. "The nineteen
hundreds" is fair, bu could refer to the whole twentieth century (all bar an
odd year at each end of course but that's a whole other debate).

I reckon "around the turn of the century" is quirte specific enough.

Incidentally someone had a theory once that in terms of "eras", each century
begins a few years AFTER the calendar ticks over. It's possible that the
tension around the "end of the century" and "a new start" have an effect on
world events.

It makes it convenient for high school history courses of course.

Obviously this century started in September 2001.

The twentieth century almost certainly started on the day a certain Archduke
was shot in Bosnia.

The nineteenth century didn't really get going until the eighteenth finished
- with the final defeat of Napoleon.

THere's a prize for anyone who can segue this back to telecine.  (Not sure
what the prize is, but there should be one!)

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Sydney Australia
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