[Ads-l] 192 = 1902

[Jim Parish]

I've always pronounced the title "two thousand one".

Jim Parish

On 4/19/2017 7:31 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> And wasn't the movie title "2001" usu. pronounced as "two thousand and one"?
>
> JL
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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-Januar
>>> y/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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