It's the 13th year of the 21st century so Twenty Thirteen is fine and a lot easier to say than Two Thousand and Thirteen. We never said One Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy Six did we or even Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Six. Twenty Thirteen it will be by popular usage is my guess.
Come to Pittsburgh, everybody! Armageddon will take ten years to get here. Anyway, the idea that the end of the Mayan katun means the end of the world simply isn't true. It's merely the end of a 520 year period, which is often accompanied by natural disasters. Considering the last katun ended in 1492, it may mean aliens from outer space will show up, kill most of us, take everything we have and put us to work in the mines. Abramovich's yacht sounds nice, though, especially to celebrate a CL spot and finishing ahead of Arsenal. And if the world doesn't end, well, Abramovich's yacht did need stealing.
Nineteen-hundred is used in general usage as a short hand for saying 1900 - twenty-hundred is not and never has been used as short hand for saying 2000. They may as well call this year two-hundred-and-onety-two.
Bucket list time is it...I see! First plane out to NY, shag J-Lo in the hoop! Take a bat to anything that breaks at the Emirates. Knock John Terry clean out. 2 and 3 again probably with no worry of arrest! Get a refund on next years holiday deposit.
Two Mayan`s sat writing a calander, 1st "iam up to 22 December 2012, my wrist has gone numb with all this writing do you want to take over" 2nd "nah fxxk it let someboby else carry on in a couple of hundred years or so"
In the hoop. Pervert! (or is my lack of street lingo showing again). Shag her in the 'hood (take her in the block?). That's what us kids say!
Really! is that just possibly because we had a hundred years of 1900's and only 12 of 2000's. Twenty Thirteen is the first year of the 21st century that sits comfortably on the tongue using the shorthand and like it or not, it will gain currency. Trying to place some mathematical reason for your view will not wash. This is language we are talking about and that is simply about usage and is not based on logic. For example would you like to explain how logic or even reason comes into the phrase '**** Off!'
I will be now! I have a few days usage of that until two-hundred-and-onety-three! I am really looking forward to the next time someone asks my card expiry date! You just don't get people coming up to you in the streets and shouting "WHAT YEAR IS IT?" any more :-(
Firstly I'll put off Christmas shopping until Saturday......yiddddooooo. And HBIC, you clearly aren't an officionardo (spelling??) of car auctions, 35 hundred is the norm, there's no such thing as three thousand five hundred.
Indeed - I've alway wondered about the term 'cock-up' which seems to me to describe successful completion of an intended action
