Re: Two Thousand and Eight

Hank Gillette wrote:

> In article
> <776d6a1b-233f-49f4-9fa8-2b4b917d2ec5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  General Specific <brad_pitstain@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> We can go the rest of our lives saying aught-three, aught-four to refer
>> to these years, but as a whole society didn't pick it up.
> 
> Did people refer to 1900-1909 as the "aughts" at the time, or was it
> something old geezers did decades later? We could still do it when we
> get to be old geezers.

I'd say geezers not long after that decade used "aught" to refer to it --
"aught" was more a part of the language back then.  Who uses it today? I'd
say that using it for the decade we are in would pretty much be just an
affectation.


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