Laurence Horn wrote: > the 20th century began in 1914 with the outbreak of WWI and, I > suppose, ended at dawn 9/11/01. The Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm pegs the 20th century (I think plausibly) as lasting from 1914 to 1991. FWIW. Jim Parish ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org