1Cecrow
Someone was going to say or write that, sooner or later. Saw it for the first time today. Now I'm old.
Sounds too much like when I hear "back in the 1800s". We are old timers now for sure.
Sounds too much like when I hear "back in the 1800s". We are old timers now for sure.
2SESchend
My 12 year old daughter showed me a t-shirt she'd planned to buy me for Yule that my wife nixed before it could happen.
It said "Talk clearly and slowly, because I was born in the 1900s…"
It said "Talk clearly and slowly, because I was born in the 1900s…"
4Cynfelyn
Is it just UK English that has a problem with US English's use of "00s", as in "I was born in the 1900s…", "the 1800s were the golden age of the railways" etc?
In the UK, the 1900s were the decade between the 1890s and the 1910s. The early 1900s were roughly 1900-1903, rather than, as I understand it, the US's 1900s-1930s. So the US is presumably still in the early 2000s, while the UK left them in about 2004.
What do other Englishes understand by "the 1900s"? And other languages?
In the UK, the 1900s were the decade between the 1890s and the 1910s. The early 1900s were roughly 1900-1903, rather than, as I understand it, the US's 1900s-1930s. So the US is presumably still in the early 2000s, while the UK left them in about 2004.
What do other Englishes understand by "the 1900s"? And other languages?
