Date:  Sun, 12 Dec 1993 11:18:25 -0600

From:  Dennis Baron <baron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU>

Subject: name that decade



Last night at an end of term party someone asked me what

the name for the next decade will be. What, in other words,

will come after the sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties?

The zeroes? I allowed as how this was an interesting question,

another in the long list of questions I get for which I have

no answer. Aside from speculating and innovating (I've seen

suggestions for "the oughties, the singletons, the ohs, and

the naughties," does anyone know if there was a term for the

first decade of the 1900s? I'm talking historical, attested

forms here.



Dennis

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