mid-aughts

[Laurence Horn]

At 5:12 PM -0400 3/15/07, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
>  Chris F Waigl <chris at LASCRIBE.NET>
>     >>>>>
>
>On this side of the English-speaking world, "noughties" seems to be
>winning out. Here's a bunch of examples from the Guardian:
>http://xrl.us/vbkp .
>
>  <<<<<
>
>Too cute for me, being homophonous with "naughties".

Well, there was the proposal for the "Naughty Aughties", but I'm not
sure we've lived up (or even down) to it.

LH

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