I'm nearly with you Jeanie.

I get slightly irritated by, e.g."two thousand and five" instead of "twenty-oh-five". That's to be consistent with eighteen-oh-five and nineteen-oh-five".

To be further consistent, this should be the "twenty hundreds", consistent with the "eighteen-hundreds" and "nineteen-hundreds" (even tho' those were often regarded as synonyms for the 19th century and 20th century respectively.)

However, I stand by a 2-page article I wrote for a local mag. here in beautiful downtown Norwich. The article implies that the first decade this century runs 2001-2010, and it lays out in great deal why the first day of the current century was 1st January 2001.

So my vote is for the twenty-hundreds. Anyone whi disagrees....














has a different opinion.   Clearly.

If anyone wants any arguments for 1.1.2001 being the century's first day, I'll be happy to oblige, tho' there may be a delay 'cos I've been having occasional probs. getting on site.

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