Word of the Decade Nominations Open for 2000-2009

[Mark Mandel]

  (to the tune of "Jingle Bells")
Double L, double N, just ten letters long:
That's how to spell "millennium", remember by this song.
One thousand years exactly, the meaning of the word,
Year One began the first one, Two-thousand-one the third!

Haven't we been over the decade question before? I call the decade the
"double-ohs".

Mark Mandel


On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Benjamin Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:55 AM, <RonButters at aol.com> wrote:
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> > This will surely begin an endless series of debates about whether the new
> > decade began in 2000 or 2001.
>
> Not to mention what to call the decade...
>
>
> --Ben Zimmer
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