http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/modern-day-date-ing Global English and language change Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/modern-day-date-ing/comment-page-1#comment-871 Sharon Creese Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:12:46 +0000 http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/?p=2989#comment-871 Thanks for the link Chris - interesting. Thanks for the link Chris – interesting.

]]> http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/modern-day-date-ing/comment-page-1#comment-870 chris Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:32:42 +0000 http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/?p=2989#comment-870 another blogger - Vicki Hollett also wrote about this and you may be interested to see her take on it - particularly in the comments where she talks about the "sound" of the different options. it clearly is something that is in the process of change. Here's the link <a href="http://www.vickihollett.com/?p=1063" rel="nofollow">http://www.vickihollett.com/?p=1063</a> another blogger – Vicki Hollett also wrote about this and you may be interested to see her take on it – particularly in the comments where she talks about the “sound” of the different options.
it clearly is something that is in the process of change.
Here’s the link
http://www.vickihollett.com/?p=1063

]]> http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/modern-day-date-ing/comment-page-1#comment-869 Sharon Creese Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:31:33 +0000 http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/?p=2989#comment-869 It's interesting you say that, because ever since really getting into thinking about the issue of dates (particularly while writing that blog), I've noticed that I'm tending to think 'twenty oh nine' or 'twenty oh one' instead of the 'two thousand and nine' and 'two thousand and one' that seemed so comfy before. It hadn't even occurred to me that changing the format I used for forthcoming years would also change how I thought about previous ones! It’s interesting you say that, because ever since really getting into thinking about the issue of dates (particularly while writing that blog), I’ve noticed that I’m tending to think ‘twenty oh nine’ or ‘twenty oh one’ instead of the ‘two thousand and nine’ and ‘two thousand and one’ that seemed so comfy before. It hadn’t even occurred to me that changing the format I used for forthcoming years would also change how I thought about previous ones!

]]> http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/modern-day-date-ing/comment-page-1#comment-868 chris Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:16:53 +0000 http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/?p=2989#comment-868 Hi, the logical next question - once we accept twenty-ten etc as the dominant pattern - is in which year it will become acceptable to refer to 2009 as twenty o nine? Hi, the logical next question – once we accept twenty-ten etc as the dominant pattern – is in which year it will become acceptable to refer to 2009 as twenty o nine?

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