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Originally Posted by Shawnee123
In higher education, years are the last half of one and the first half of the next. So, we say oh eight oh nine (08/09), for the year that started in 2008. When we started discussing this year as the last half of the academic and FA year, people would say oh nine oh ten (09/10). People had to train themselves to leave the 'oh' out.
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Originally Posted by lumberjim
I'm gonna hafta pull rank on you folks.
The car business sets this trend. always has. and we say 'oh ten'.
that's why the Oh Ten cars come out in August.....just so we can take charge of this kind of thing.
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Ha! So it's not just us.
Just like the whole Y2K scare, no one thought ahead of time how we will say 2010. Someone should have anticipated this shit. :p
(side note) on the plots on my grammy and gramps headstones, they had put the year gramps died and only put '19--' for grammy. She was like, yeah, that's a bit early for me. She died this year (oh heck, I mean last year) at 97, sharp as a tack as always.
