[Ads-l] 192 = 1902

[Ben Zimmer]

This has come here in the past, as in this 2010 thread:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2010-January/095487.html

As I said there, the "nineteen two" formulation seems to have been quite
common -- perhaps the most common way to say the name of the year at the
time. I found evidence for it from class cheers and other sources when I
looked into the matter in aught one:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/msg/e8a4080f14289670

Based on our previous discussion, I think either "nineteen two" or
"nineteen and two" would've been more common at the time than "nineteen oh
two" (or "nineteen aught two" for that matter).


On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As recreated in the film “Jackie,” Jackie Kennedy pronounced the year
> “1902” as “19 2” in her 1961 tour of the White House. The original is at
> about 6:30 into the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbFt4h3Dkkw <
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbFt4h3Dkkw>.
>
> I pronounce this as “19 OH 2” and her pronunciation seems odd to me,
> though perhaps it’s a regional or chronolectal thing.
>
>
>

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