2006 > "two-oh-six"?

[sagehen]

>Are people starting to replace the two-thousands with just
>two, as in "two-oh-six" instead of "two-thousand-six"? Or
>is it just my imagination running away with me? FWIW,
>I've just heard someone say, "in '99 and in two-oh-four"
>in two different sentences and I've heard the same "two-
>oh-digit" construction on other occasions. Of course,
>this could be simply haplogy ;-) for "2-oh-oh-digit."
>
>-Wilson Gray
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So soon we forget!  We all got thoroughly familiar ith Y2K, but didn't make
the logical extension into 2K0-x into the first decade.
Someone else observed a similar collapse of two vowels into one quite
recently on  the list which reminded me of the frequently heard TIA-CREF.
AM


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