MatthewD on Nostr: "two thousand and nine" is one more syllable than saying "twenty oh nine" Why we ...
"two thousand and nine" is one more syllable than saying "twenty oh nine"
Why we continue to say two thousand X year makes no sense to me. It's just a thing that made it into the English language and it's been repeated.
Published at
2024-07-20 15:59:28Event JSON
{
"id": "be4b3a1e06e89a7fffc082341c16b42d5c0e50cceea015c6bed97e9ff1d3063c",
"pubkey": "146e7ea6ceb4d2931201649b9f7a12d6784d686b273fe07edff254445966683b",
"created_at": 1721491168,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [],
"content": "\"two thousand and nine\" is one more syllable than saying \"twenty oh nine\" \n\nWhy we continue to say two thousand X year makes no sense to me. It's just a thing that made it into the English language and it's been repeated. ",
"sig": "156587b347cb643482c5a025e203d19950093026030277ad1e0594d4d357ba3a8b1db11a321956fdecfcf4805af96b3e74bd74670f498953f7cb6d80ac0c6127"
}
