[Ads-l] 192 = 1902

[Jonathan Lighter]

So nobody knows what they're *really* called.

JL

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 9:03 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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