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[gwynhefar]

I just read the phrase "turn of the century" applied to the year 1999. It was very startling. To me, turn of the century still means 1900, not 2000.

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[silme.livejournal.com]

I tend to say 'turn of the last century' when referring to the 19th-20th handover. :)

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

Which makes sense. I'm just still not used to it being the 21st century yet.

[musicwolf.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of it used that way until I read this post. Especially since I'm taking a WWI class right now.

By the way, do you like the icon I made for you?

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

Yes! Quite lovely, thank you :)

[musicwolf.livejournal.com]

Spiffy keen! Glad you like it. :)

[grizzlydan.livejournal.com]

I've been using "the turn of the last century" for 2000, and the "turn of the 20th" for 1900. We're in a rather odd point in history where that is concerned, I think.

[harkalark.livejournal.com]

I'm just wondering when people will stop saying the entire "two thousand and six" and such. Will 2011 be "twenty eleven" or "two thousand and eleven" or "two thousand eleven?" It will probably fluctuate a lot for a while, I'm guessing at least until 2020. (The sound bite of Barbara Walters saying "This is 20/20" will probably get a lot of use then.)

Meanwhile, I like to say "twenty-oh-six" and such for the years in our present decade just because I'm like that. (And they do refer to cars as "oh-six models.") It gets way the hell up my nostrils when sci-fi shows or movies refer to, say, "the year two thousand one hundred and seventy-one," rather than "2171." I wasn't born in "the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy-four."

Damn I think about this stuff way too much.

[whitecrow0.livejournal.com]

Me, too.