Twenty-ten!
I would like to wish all readers of this blog a very happy New Year! May all your hopes come to fruition, and may this year be one of economic recovery and social and cultural regeneration.
I hope also that you may find something in this blog during 2010 that will interest, stimulate or at least irritate you!
My very best wishes to you all,
Ferdinand
PS. And by the way, it’s ‘twenty-ten’ rather than ‘two thousand and ten’…
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January 1, 2010 at 12:35 am
Does that mean it was (still is here, actually) twenty-oh-nine? 😉
And a very happy new year to you and yours – and may you find interesting endeavours to occupy you once your presidency ends.
January 1, 2010 at 1:08 am
Thank you, Wendy!
‘2001 – A Space Odyssey’ made every one go for ‘two-thousand-and-one’, and that’s what we stayed with until last year (this year for you). Now it’s time to put it right!
January 1, 2010 at 1:21 am
The year 2000; that’s what did it, it couldn’t be called 20-zero.
January 1, 2010 at 1:52 am
The logical term would have been ‘twenty-hundred’, as in ‘nineteen-hundred’.
January 1, 2010 at 6:29 am
Ten, will do for me. Or if I’m feeling a bit frivolous, Oh-ten.
And a happy new year to you and yours, also to all the others.
January 1, 2010 at 8:51 am
Nineteen-hundred was also mistake, inconsistent with Nineteen-o-3 and so on, it may have lead to the arch “Nineteen-hundred and three”. Our system can’t deal with century years and perhaps always leads to a few years of oddness.
January 1, 2010 at 9:36 am
Happy New Year to all. But I’m still a bit undecided about the 20 thing…
January 1, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Well, I suppose we could always go with 1431… might be just about right in terms of some of the ‘thinking’ going on ’round here these days 😉
In any event, every good wish for the future; I enjoy your blog.
January 1, 2010 at 2:05 pm
“may this year be one of economic recovery and social and cultural regeneration.”
Well we’re off to a good start on the latter with the Blasphemy law coming into force today…welcome to the Middle Ages. 😉
Apart from that sentiment, a Guid New Year to Yin and A’ !
January 2, 2010 at 12:02 am
The pedant in me likes to point out that that really December 2010 is the end of a decade for the same reason that the end of 2000 was the end of the millenium (there being no year 0).
As for the Middle Ages…well there was some quite good architecture & some so-so music so maybe not at all that bad. But I wouldn’t put too much money on economic recovery, lads.
January 2, 2010 at 1:49 am
Kevin, I think a decade can begin and end in any year, as the definition is ‘a period of ten years’…
January 2, 2010 at 11:18 am
I’m for “twenty-ten”, if only in hope that ten years hence the name of the year might reflect the clarity of our collective vision on the important issues of the day.
Happy New Year to one and all!!