![]() Who has time to say "thousand" in these fast-paced times? Me? No. My guess is "twenty-ten." It's short and snappy. So how will we pronounce 2010? We will know in a few weeks. Fox got that one right, so did the Doors. The nineteenth century we also call the eighteen hundreds, but do we call the twentieth century the nineteen-hundreds? We do not. if man is still alive, if woman can survive, they may find." It's dismal, but consistent: "In the year forty-five-forty-five, you ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes." Or, I hope, my ears. You remember them, of course: "In the year twenty-five-twenty-five. The second is "In the Year 2525" by Zager and Evans. Kubrick's "2001, a Space Odyssey." Spoken aloud, it's generally "two-thousand-one." No "and" there. ![]() What shall we call these modern times? Two precedents present themselves. Most refreshing.īut rib raises an interesting issue, if not quite a burning one. I like your anti-prescriptivism, Porsche. ![]()
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