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Grammar and Linguistics > Year 2010 !!
Year 2010 !!
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Paul64
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Hey all,
Well all are correct, but
after 2009 we start to say twenty ten. |
16 Sep 2010
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Larisa.
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Thank you, Linda! Really a very interesting view.
I �m teaching my students �twenty-ten � and I didn �t even suppose that another way to say the year 2010 was also commonly used. |
16 Sep 2010
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MarionG
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OOps, I just today found myself saying we usually group years two by two but that in the case of 2010 it is soooo ugly to say �twenty ten � that I prefer �two thousand and ten �
Anyway did any of you notice "the grammar police never sleep" which brings us again back to the issue if �the police � is singular or plural.............. |
16 Sep 2010
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dawnmain
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I �m English. I say two thousand and ten. However I remember when I was in England for Christmas there were articles in the press discussing the issue as no-one seemed to know what would happen in the New Year. But I do remember Hilary Clinton saying twenty-ten. Doesn �t really matter I think.
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16 Sep 2010
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Faurfab
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Thank you all for your answers!!!! I couldn �t thank you before because I had to go to hospital bacause when I was eatin, my upper lip started swelling!!!! I look like Frankestein and they still don �t know what �s happening to me!!! Thanks again! Have a nice evening!
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16 Sep 2010
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hdefined
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"The "20" should have been pronounced "twenty" all along, he said, pointing out that every year in the 20th century was pronounced "nineteen something.""
No, this isn �t correct at all, or else everyone would have said "twenty one" for 2001, which wouldn �t have made any sense. "Twenty-oh-one" would�ve been just as confusing.
People have been doing it right. Only now do we have the option to use the two double-digit numerals without causing confusion. |
17 Sep 2010
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