End of ADS-L Digest - 11 Dec 1993 to 12 Dec 1993

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There are 13 messages totalling 347 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. name that decade (5)

 2. Name that Decade

 3. some U.S. "Midland" regionalisms

 4. correction

 5. Ages and Centuries (3)

 6. progressive statives

 7. John Henry/Hancock



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Date:  Mon, 13 Dec 1993 09:05:42 EST

From:  Emory Waters <EWW02[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ALBNYDH2.BITNET>

Subject: Re: name that decade



Re names for the 1900's decade:



Many years ago somebody who had lived through that decade said that the

racy young set referred to it as the "Naughty-noughts."



Emory Waters