2000 or 20?
Kieran_Burns
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Okay, this is bugging me now.
When do we start saying twenty eleven / twelve / thirteen / whatever, rather than two thousand and eleven / twelve / thirtenn / whatever?
This is important stuff.
When do we start saying twenty eleven / twelve / thirteen / whatever, rather than two thousand and eleven / twelve / thirtenn / whatever?
This is important stuff.
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2009 Specialized Tricross Sport
2011 Trek Madone 4.5
2012 Felt F65X
Proud CX Pervert and quiet roadie. 12 mile commuter
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I'm saying 'twenty eleven' now.FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
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........also because in November there will be two separate points at which it will be twenty to eleven on the twentieth of the eleventh twenty eleven.....which is kinda geeky but cool.FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
CAADX 105 beastie for bumpy bits
Litespeed L3 for Strava bits
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Equally important, is this decade the oneties?--
Chris
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When did anyone ever say one thousand nine hundred and one or ten or twenty and so on?
Just go with it become a trend setter, say Twenty eleven. Live in fear that everyone will think you're trying to be American, which is worse....
I will forever say 2011.Food Chain number = 4
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SimonAH wrote:........also because in November there will be two separate points at which it will be twenty to eleven on the twentieth of the eleventh twenty eleven.....which is kinda geeky but cool.
But we don't write twenty to eleven as 2011. It should be 11 minutes past 8 in the evening, so 20:11, 20/11, 2011. But I'm not a geek, honestly.No-one wanted to eat Patagonia Toothfish so they renamed it Chilean Sea Bass and now it's in danger of over fishing!0 -
Can we say Twenty Twelve without paying a fee to the IOC or London Organising Committee?No-one wanted to eat Patagonia Toothfish so they renamed it Chilean Sea Bass and now it's in danger of over fishing!0
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My history teacher always spoke of "nineteen five" rather than "nineteen oh five" when dscussing the first Russian Revolution in 1905.
The question is also,
who says thirteen-hundred for 1300?
If you do, how far do you go?
fifty hundred? 5,000?0 -
In Roman numerals it is MMXI and not XX XI, which could be mistaken for 31.
2011 is not only a prime number, it's a sexy prime (differs from the previous prime by 6). But I'm really not a geek.No-one wanted to eat Patagonia Toothfish so they renamed it Chilean Sea Bass and now it's in danger of over fishing!0 -
It's a no-brainer this one.
What was that film called, from when it came out, for all of the late 1960's through to 1999 and beyond? 2001 - A Space Odyssey. Anyone who called it Twenty-Oh-One' warrants a slap. It therefore follows that this century shall forever refer to its years as two thousand and <something>. That's correct. The fact that the media, esp the BBC, and everyone I know has been getting it wrong for the last 10 years or so with Twenty-Ten etc just shows how easy it is for the whole world to be out of step. And twenty-ten or whatever is pug-ugly as far as speech goes
Two Thousand and... - that's how it should be. That's how it is in my world.0 -
The post above makes me smile.Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game0 -
You can't argue with its veracity though can you?
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It's the marketing power of the Olympics.
Thinking about it, just about every lobby trys to connect their pitch to the Olympics and I've jsut managed it with this post.0