A dialect split

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:32 PM -0500 12/17/08, Wilson Gray wrote:
>I've already heard both "twenty-ten" and "two-thousand-ten."
>
>-Wilson

I wonder if the "twenty-ten" speakers are co-extensive than the
"twenty-oh-eight" speakers.  I'm in the other group, possibly because
I always referred to the movie as "two thousand and one" for many
years before we actually reached the year (without HAL's help).  But
a colleague of mine was in the "twenty-oh-one" group, and it's been
"twenty-oh-n" ever since.  I'm sure it will be "twenty ten" for him.

LH

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