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Yet, when it comes to decades, we seem to be using the zero based count, perhaps with some confusion. The naughts, teens, twenties, etc.
by amatic 7y ago
Yet, when it comes to decades, we seem to be using the zero based count, perhaps with some confusion. The naughts, teens, twenties, etc.
- wongarsu 7y agoThat's because we don't count decades. We say we live in the third millennium, and in the 21st century, but nobody calls this the 203rd decade. Instead we call it based on a common property of all the years in the decade (the count of these years can be abbreviated as twenty-something).