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Re: THE NEXT DECADE?

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From: Len Olszewski
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15:27
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In article <19394@mindlink.bc.ca>, Marg_Meikle@mindlink.bc.ca (Marg Meikle) writes:
|> So whaddya think.  If the last decade was the eighties and this is the
|> nineties,  what will we call the next decade?

Back when I was a boy (a few years after the end of the Mesozoic era), 
we used to call the numeral zero a "naught". In that case, the next 
decade might be called the "naughties". You have to admit, it has a ring 
to it.

It's year zero....NAUGHT.

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