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Macmillan Dictionary on Saying datesI hear both, though my impression is the same as yours, that twenty - etc is more commonly used these days. I don't know…
Stan Carey on Flat adverbs are exceeding fineSteph: Careful is not in standard use as an adverb, and according to the OED it never has been – only carefully.
Dami John on Saying dates2000 was the last year of the 2nd Millenium, and people say "Two Thousand", nobody says "Twenty Hundred", and 1000, bein…
Steph on Flat adverbs are exceeding fineHow about ‘careful’ as a flat adverb, as in ‘appraise careful’?
Clemencedane on Do you have an issue around ‘issues around’?Ps. to Michael Rundell - I loathed "stakeholder" the first time I heard it, and it wasn't in a particularly unpleasant s…