The corollary to all of this is what year is it now?? Not two thousand nine, but rather twenty oh nine.
I was born in nineteen fifty-four. Most all of us were born in nineteen something.
When T206s come out in 1909, I doubt they said it was one thousand nine hundred nine, nor nineteen hundred nine. I think they said nineteen oh nine.
Independence, seventeen seventy-six. Civil war, eighteen sixty-one. Pearl Harbor nineteen forty-one. And this year that we're in now, twenty oh nine. Next year is twenty ten. Then twenty eleven. Eventually we'll let go of our two thousand hangup and get it right.
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