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The 1810s had a name too, as they were the Regency. There seems to be a trend now to refer to a century as e.g. the 1800s, (rather than the 19th century), where I think of the term as meaning the first decade of the century in question.
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The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are in their 11th decade, the Prince of Wales 9th, while the Princess Royal her 8th. Dame Vera Lynn gets her whooping 12th.
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I have a feeling that there may be parallels between these twenties and the last; time will tell.
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I don't think this decade will ever match the Roaring 20s .. a unique period of Style - from the the crazy music, to Art Deco and cloche hats. Love it all!
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I hope that the change of decade means that people more commonly refer to the year we we are now in as "twenty-twenty" rather than "two-thousand-and-twenty". The "two-thousand-and ..." construct made some sort of sense in the years just after the millennium but I have found it very irritating that it was still in use nineteen years later. I have even heard a small number of people abbreviating this in speech to "two-nineteen".
We'll see what happens when the Olympics roll around in the summer. "Tokyo twenty-twenty" has a nice euphonious sound which I hope becomes the standard expression. | |||||||||
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scary to think that 1970 is now half-a-century ago!...and this decade also sees us reach the quarter century milestone (2025)
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I agree with Charles. The London Olympics were generally known as "twenty twelve", but many people have subsequently reverted to the verbose "two thousand and ....".
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I sometimes wonder if people who talk about "two thousand and twenty" and the like think that the Battle of Hastings happened in a thousand and sixty-six.
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I particularly like how the under 50s have taken longer to wake up today than the over 50s.
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It's all down to Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke. Should've been Twenty Oh One.
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I am also fascinated by the cliff edge between what's currently the most popular category, full of seventy-somethings, and just my Dad in his eighties.
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Er, the second decade of this century is known as the Tens. Not sure what you mean about it not having an accepted label - its name follows the same logic as the other decades!
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