I'm not sure the authorities ever got around to deciding what the *last* decade was supposed to be called, so I think we've got some time on this.
As for myself, I think any of those choices are fine, although as a mathematician, I'm officially supposed to discourage all but the first, as though we all referred to years past as One Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Eight. How silly would that be? The year would be over by the time you got to the end of it! (Hmm. I note in passing that that last sentence totally makes sense in a different context.)
I think I'll wait until The Powers That Be make an official proclamation on the matter, and then proceed to use a spurned form, in keeping with my new policy of being a cantankerous contrarian. But that's just me.
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As for myself, I think any of those choices are fine, although as a mathematician, I'm officially supposed to discourage all but the first, as though we all referred to years past as One Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Eight. How silly would that be? The year would be over by the time you got to the end of it! (Hmm. I note in passing that that last sentence totally makes sense in a different context.)
I think I'll wait until The Powers That Be make an official proclamation on the matter, and then proceed to use a spurned form, in keeping with my new policy of being a cantankerous contrarian. But that's just me.
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