A dialect split

[Randy Alexander]

[Reposting in plain text (sorry).]

I'm surprised that you're surprised by that.

Twenty-ten is no stranger than nineteen-ten, and two-thousand-ten is
no stranger than two-thousand-nine.  The former may be less formal.

Randy

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've already heard both "twenty-ten" and "two-thousand-ten."
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> -Wilson
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Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China
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