Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 09:42:27 -0500

From: Molly Dickmeyer dickmeye[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]JBLSMTP.PHL.LRPUB.COM

Subject: Re: Zero or "o"? -Reply



To paraphrase from _Copy Editor_ magazine, June/July 1994 (I'm sure

you're already familiar with this, Jesse), The NY Times has decided

to call the years 2000 to 2009 the "Ohs," which, personally, I think

is pretty horrendous. Other suggestions from various places include

the Ands, the Aughts, [Oughts, Aughties, Oughties, Naughts], the

Millennium, the Turns, the Deuce Ands, the Two Triple Ohs, the

Zilches, the Digits, the Zots, the Preteens, the Newborn Decade, and

the Zero Decade. The article is pretty thorough--I recommend it.



Molly

dickmeye[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]phl.lrpub.com



Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU 11/30/95, 03:48pm

(On "Nineteen aught three", as brought up by Ron Butters--)



Right, as in the "Naughty Aughties", another round of which will be

coming up before we know it. Do any other ADS-ers have any

predictions on what the coming decade will be called? Or the one

after it, for that matter? (This question has been entertained by

Safire in his On Language columns, but of course inconclusively.)



Larry