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I've thought more about it, and I'm going to go ahead and declare a particular linguistic nuance:
When it is an adjective, people are more likely to say "twenty." When it is a noun, they say "two thousand." Consider: "Back in two thousand fourteen" "The twenty-fourteen Olympic games" "When Donald Trump was elected in two thousand sixteen" "The twenty-sixteen election" |
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In 1814 [eighteen fourteen] we took a little trip Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip … ETA: and we're gonna party like it's 1999... ……...and the 2001 attack on the WTC... |
Bad country music is no way to define anything.
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I was gonna say, I always say "two thousand nineteen" in reference to what I can't believe is still happening. "It's two thousand nineteen--people are still [whatever the thing is]??" |
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2001-2009 are their own category because "twenty oh one" sounds dumb. But I maintain that years like "two thousand fifty-four" will stick around to some degree all the way to "two thousand ninety nine." |
All it takes is one really catchy song, that popularizes saying the year as twenty-something in the lyrics, to change the way everyone says it for at least a decade. We'll see what pop culture says.
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That's not very catchy.
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