[Ads-l] 192 = 1902

[Barretts Mail]

Thank you! I had no idea how to search for that in the archives! BB

> On 19 Apr 2017, at 11:05, Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 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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