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Systematic Syllabic Slander OK--enough already. I've been listening to this for ten years now, and it's time we all got on board. Are you ready?
The year--is 20-10. Not 2 thousand-10. Twenty-ten.
Think about it: 18-10, 19-10, 20-10. Just like it was 18-oh-9, 19-oh-9, 20-oh-9. The problem goes back to that movie of 1968, 20-oh-1 a Space Odyssey, although, of course, we never called it that. It was two thousand one from the git-go, and that was that. I don't know what it was--our unfamiliarity with years starting with a "2," or what. But there we were, 32 years before the fact, locked into an off-the-wall pronunciation, and we've certainly been consitent since then, with something else dumb f... READ MORE
