[Ads-l] 192 = 1902

[Jonathan Lighter]

The newly arrived official announcement of our granddaughter's high-school
graduation writes the year as "Two thousand and seventeen."

JL

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 1:19 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > “19 2”
>
>
> My grandparents and others of that ilk used such forms. IIRC - and I may
> not.
>
> --
> -Wilson
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> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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