Two Thousand Seventeen or Tweny Seventeen????
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I was eating breakfast with a colleague this morning and made a comment about a new start in 2017.
She responded, "Please don't say two thousand seventeen. Say twenty seventeen."
We had a good laugh about it, but she made her point that during the 19 hundreds, everybody was saying "nineteen ninety eight, nineteen ninety nine, etc..."
Interesting point.
Silly thread.
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Well, we say that the year of
Well, we say that the year of the Norman Conquest was "ten sixty-six" not "one thousand sixty-six."
On the other hand, some say the year of Columbus' first voyage to the Americas was: "fourteen hundred and ninety-two"
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Hurray for semantics!!
Hurray for semantics!!
Keeps me in business.
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And don't get me started on
And don't get me started on people who say, "two thousand and seventeen."
Isn't that, like, totally 2000.17?
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2ought17
2ought17
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I say fuck the Gregorian
I say fuck the Gregorian calendar...time for something new with 13 months...
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Twenty Seventeen is how I
Twenty Seventeen is how I hear everyone saying it.
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smarch!!
smarch!!
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two hundred and one seven....
two hundred and one seven....
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20 - 7 teen
20 - 7 teen
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1776
1776
1812
1969
twenty seventeen
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I say two thousand seventeen,
I say two thousand seventeen. I plan to switch to twenty at twenty twenty.
2006 = two thousand six
2023 = twenty twenty-three
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two thousand one: a space
two thousand one: a space odyssey
not
twenty one: a space odyssey
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I see that we have a trouble
I see that we have a trouble-maker here...
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Who?
Who?
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When I drove a taxi, the main
When I drove a taxi, the main dispatcher (a Phil who, sadly, did not find an organ donor) pronounced it "Seven Dean".
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Twenty-seventeen or STFU
Twenty-seventeen or STFU
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Two seventeen.
Two seventeen.
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2ought17 <<<<
2ought17 <<<<
^ this would be the response to OP's "colleague", but in particular how she approached the first decade?
Did she say twenty ought six or two thousand six?
If it was the latter, then why the "sudden switch" once we hit the teens?