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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Soapbox1858@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I personally say “o one” “o two” etc. all the way up to “o nine” After that it just seems weird to say “ten” or “eleven” instead of “twenty ten”

Even referring to 1910 as “ten” seems weird and wrong, though. In my mind, it doesn’t make sense to leave the nineteen off until the 40s. For example, saying: “Back in forty-five” sounds right, but “Back in thirty-five” sounds wrong to me for some reason.

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