Two-oh-Two=2002?

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Thu Jan 5 07:21:48 UTC 2006


On 1/4/06, Dale Coye <Dalecoye at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Guy on the radio today talking about the Abramoff scandal kept referring to
> events in 2002 as Two-oh-two.   Is this Beltway-ese?  First time I've heard it.

Perhaps a subtle homage to Jibjab's latest Bush parody, which uses
"two-oh-five"?

See: http://jibjab.com/


--Ben Zimmer



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