Say goodbye to the decade with no name

[Tom Zurinskas]

I'd call it the Y2k decade.



Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL7+
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> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:36:42 +0800
> From: mcclay at TAOLODGE.COM
> Subject: Re: Say goodbye to the decade with no name
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> Poster: Russ McClay
> Subject: Re: Say goodbye to the decade with no name
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> Hi Dennis --
>
> Read your article, but would tend to disagree about
> our entering the "teens". 10, 11, 12 are not teens.
>
> As mentioned in your article, the popular nicknames
> for the decades of the last century started with the
> 20's.
>
> -r
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