What Year Is It?
I’m just back from a month long work assignment in Aberdeen. Although it got close to driving me to the brink of madness, its not why I’m asking what year it is.
I’m having one of those moments you sometimes get with words….well I do. You hear a word you are not familiar with, or maybe you’ve never really heard it in open conversation before, then all of a sudden you keep hearing it, every other day, and it drives you mad.
The same is happening to me with years just now. I’ve noticed a couple of people referring to the year as “twenty oh nine”, rather than “two thousand and nine”. Thinking about this more, I did then seem to remember people speaking of the London Olympics being “twenty twelve” but thats about it really.
Is this the trend bucking? Up until now in the 21st century, people have been saying “two thousand and….”, its actually quiet easily applied right through this entire century, but I did wonder if at any point people would start reverting to 20th century naming standards.
I know what you are thinking…….no this is not all I’ve been thinking about for the last 6 weeks. I do wonder about myself though.