Jan
05
2010
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It’s Twenty-Ten!

It's Twenty-Ten, not Two-Thousand and Ten

Well, here we are in a new year.  As a few people who’ve read this blog know by now, it’s Twenty-Ten here in RandyWorld, not Two-Thousand and Ten.  And while I won’t continue to beat that drum so loudly as to become annoying, I will point out that in recent days, I’ve been gratified to notice that the National Association of Good Grammar (NAGG), which, admittedly, is just one guy and a bunch of his co-horts who paid attention in grammar class, have gained some traction in the mainstream media after having decreed that, just as I said in a blog entry a few months ago, the correct way of pronouncing the year 2010 is “Twenty-Ten,” not “Two Thousand Ten.” (more…)

Oct
05
2009
0

It’s about time

Can we turn the page on two thousand next year?

Can we turn the page on "two thousand" next year?

Sooner or later, we have to stop saying “two-thousand” when referring to what year it is.  I mean, eventually, we’re going to have start referring to the year as “twenty-something.”

Prince didn’t call for us to “party like it’s one-thousand, nine-hundred, ninety-nine,” did he?

No, he didn’t. (more…)

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