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Indeed...happy New Year DG & blog readers all
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Happy new year to all.`
Victoria conveniently died in 1901, and then I'd say the Edwardan "decade" continued until at least 1914. Perhaps such nicknames are a 20th century thing. What are the nicknames for the 1890s or 1880s? |
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The debauchery of the decade preceding the Edwardian era has led to the occasional use of the epithet of the "naughty nineties"
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....and whatever happens fairer to one and all
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As timbo reminds us, most people no longer remember the Victorian 'Naughty Nineties,' let alone the 'Hungry Forties...' Memory being what it is, I suspect we'll come up with convenient renamings. And I'm entirely with you on the hope for an upswing too. Happy new year.
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Unless human average life-spans begin to greatly exceed 100years...think decade "nicknames" will remain as they have been. No one I know considered the term the "80s" to refer to anything but the 1980s. If someone was making a reference to the 1880's then they very much most likely say 18-80s. I think when people talk about the 20s in say 2057 they probably refer to the 2020s not the 20th Century "20s". Time will tell of course...
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The decade of the smartphone has to be 'The Smarties'.
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Thanks, Timbo. Had forgotten about the Naughty (18)90s. And the 1880s?
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The Tens!
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Presumably around the end of the 1990s I saw suggested names of "noughties", a decade of excesses celebrating the millenium, and "tenties", a decade of having to pay off those excesses. These seem to be the logical names, but the latter has proven to be more prescient than you'd expect!
(Sadly I can't remember where I read that - possibly letters to the Indy.) |
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