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Article #1430Re: THE NEXT DECADE?
From: Charles B. Owen
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:31
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:31
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In article <C0n9Ly.318@unx.sas.com> saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski) writes: > >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. > I prefer AUGHT (Zero). Then we can say the AUGHTS. This has a much less negative ring to it. -- | Charles B. Owen Internet: mgcbo@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu | | Western Illinois University Phone: 309-837-4292 | | 1002 E. Murray | | Macomb, IL 61455 |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!news.ils.nwu.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!uxa.ecn.bgu.edu!not-for-mail From: mgcbo@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Charles B. Owen) Newsgroups: misc.writing Subject: Re: THE NEXT DECADE? Date: 10 Jan 1993 15:31:07 -0600 Organization: Educational Computing Network Lines: 22 Message-ID: <1iq4irINN9oo@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> References: <19394@mindlink.bc.ca> <C0n9Ly.318@unx.sas.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uxa.ecn.bgu.edu