2,006 or 20-0-6?
At the beginning of "CBS Sunday Morning"every...uh, Sunday morning, Charles Osgood introduces the news segment with the day's date. Today, for example, he said, "April 30th, Twenty-o-six."
I say, "Two thousand, six."
"Twenty-o-six" sounds awkward to me.
Since there are 94 years left in this century, I think we should settle on one way of stating what year it is!
Clearly, people who say "Two thousand, six" are enlightened and should rule the world.
People who say "twenty-o-six" are obstructionists! They insist on using 20th-century thinking when identifying 21st-century events. How gauche can one get?!
If the obstructionists refuse to adapt, they should be rounded up and put on reservations where no one cares what they say. That's the American way!... isn't it?
posted by jyuma @ 7:32 AM
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i think twenty-o-something will be awkward until twenty-ten. from then on it will become the norm -- just because it's snappier to say. you know, like, i never heard you say "one thousand nine hundred ninety seven" although that is the way you put it on checks .... just my thoughts, -- heapum big chiefress troublemaker
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