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<font size=3>At 1/16/2009 02:24 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:<br>
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(to the tune of "Jingle Bells")<br>
Double L, double N, just ten letters long:<br>
That's how to spell "millennium", remember by this song.<br>
One thousand years exactly, the meaning of the word,<br>
Year One began the first one, Two-thousand-one the third!<br><br>
Haven't we been over the decade question before? I call the decade
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I call the first 8 years (counting as Mark does) the "uh-oh"
decade. (Yes I can't count. Just think of it as a decade
decimated a little more than twice.)<br><br>
Joel<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>Mark
Mandel<br><br>
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Benjamin Zimmer<br>
<bgzimmer@babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:<br>
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> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:55 AM, <RonButters@aol.com>
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> > This will surely begin an endless series of debates about
whether the new<br>
> > decade began in 2000 or 2001.<br>
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> Not to mention what to call the decade...<br>
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> --Ben Zimmer<br>
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