[Ads-l] 192 = 1902

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sounds perfectly normal to me.  I'd say either "Two thousand two" or "two
thousand and two."

"Twenty oh two" is possible, but I wouldn't say it.

JL

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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