A dialect split

[Wilson Gray]

Ah, I didn't mean to imply that I was totally taken aback by this
phenomenon. I merely found iit mildly interesting that people are
alreeady lining up, so to speak, a year aheaad of time. No doubt, just
as people already say, "two-thousand-eight," "two-o-eight," and
"two-eight," some people will say "two-ten" as well as "twenty-ten"
and "two-thousand-ten," or maybe even "two-o-ten," when the year 2010
arrives. You never know.

FWIW, I intend to go with "twenty-ten."

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Randy Alexander
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> I'm surprised that you're surprised by that.
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> 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.
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> 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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>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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