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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread another question settled... or nought #85839 11/05/02 09:27 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm OP Carpal Tunnel OP tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass in some circles at least... noughties, n. NEW EDITION: draft entry Sept. 2001 The decade from 2000 to 2009. 1989 W. SAFIRE in N.Y. Times Mag. 7 May 18/4 That postcard touches on several possibilities suggested by scores of..third-millennium freaks... The Naughties was suggested by 40 readers. 1990 R. J. A. SMITH in Independent (Nexis) 19 Jan. 20 After the Eighties and the Nineties, what should we be calling the next decade? The Noughties? 1991 New Scientist 14 Sept. 62/3 With regard to Richard Caie's question about suitable names for the next two decades..: considering the moral decline of society as a whole, the next decade must surely be the noughties. 1996 New Scientist 11 May 80/3 Rachel Oliver thought of a rather more serious difficulty which we will encounter in the year 2000. What will we call the new decade..? To get the ball rolling, Oliver suggests the ‘noughties’. 2000 Even. Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Electronic ed.) 1 July, Ditch the mesh handbag, flick the World arm-bands, and dump the diamante butterfly hairclips: the ultimate celebrity-endorsed accessory for the discerning noughties woman is the bloke who is..Just Gay Enough. 2001 Sunday Times 25 Mar. (Style section) X. 6 The Noughties celebrity face has a line-free forehead and bee-stung lips. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: another question settled... or nought #85840 11/06/02 01:34 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky My opinion on this pretty much matches the source, I think: suggested by scores of..third-millennium freaks... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: another question settled... or nought #85841 11/06/02 10:13 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 R RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah R Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 - - - and what do we call the decade from 2010 - 2019? Following the precendent given, they should be the tenties? or the teenies? The latter is only really appropriate for seven of the years, anyway! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: another question settled... or nought #85842 11/06/02 01:21 PM Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada M modestgoddess old hand modestgoddess old hand M Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 833 Eastern Ontario, Canada Hmm....I've been calling this decade the oh-ohs (seemed appropriate enough to me). Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,351 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 580 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 27 A C Bowden 22 LukeJavan8 2 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,549 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,918 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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