[Ads-l] 192 = 1902

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:

> "I want to say twenty oh one..."


So do I and I do say it, so that this year is twenty-seventeen. No one else
seems to be affected by this, one way or the other. I've also heard
"two-seventeen" used for dates, on rare occasions.


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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-Mark Twain

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