to begin again, again
We have bid farewell to the first month of 2010. I’ve started saying twenty-ten. I think someone told me to – I’m not sure. Anyway, it’s easier.
Our first decade had to turn out as the 2000s. While a hundred years earlier people could easily say nineteen-oh-one, nineteen-aught-two, etc., twenty-oh-one wouldn’t have rolled off the tongue. [...]