Year names

[Joel S. Berson]

At 5/2/2007 10:14 AM, you wrote:
>Recently, I've been participating in a LiveJournal discussion on the
>pronunciation of year names. The original poster, who is Swedish, was
>struck by President Bush's use of the phrase "two thousand seven" to
>refer to the current year; the corresponding name in Swedish would
>translate as "twenty-hundred and seven".
>
>I replied that this was standard usage, with "twenty-oh-seven" as a rarer
>possibility (and "twenty-hundred and seven" an impossibility), but
>pointed out that in later decades "two thousand seventeen" and
>"twenty-seventeen" would be possibilities, with the former being
>somewhat more formal.

And then ask several book indexers where to place the year name in an
alphabetical index.

Joel

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