Comment on At what point do you stop calling the years "two thousand and X" and start calling them "twenty X"?

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stinerman@midwest.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

You can do “2009” as “twenty oh 9”, but that feels kinda awkward. “Two thousand nine” has the same number of syllables (4). “Twenty ten” is 3. “Two thousand ten” is 4.

Even “1900” is “nineteen hundred” (4) vs “one thousand nine hundred” (6).

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