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Re: Century - Humor
Just for grins, I pulled my old Webster's New World Dictionary (c1988) off
the shelf and looked up the definition for century. It said:
1. any period of 100 years, as from 1620 to 1720 2. a period of 100 years
reckoned from a certain time, esp. from the beginning of the Christian Era;
in common usage, a century begins with a year ending in 00 and runs through
99, as 1800-1899, 1900-1999, etc. [A.D. 1801 through A.D. 1900 is the 19th
century A.D., 400 B.C. through 301 B.C. is the fourth century B.C.]...
So there you have it! A century runs from 1900-1999, and the twentieth
century is from 1901-2000. How's that for covering all your bases?
Robin Tew
in sunny Florida
From: Dean DeBolt <ddebolt@MAIL.UWF.EDU>
SNIP
I'm teaching a community education class in the evenings
on the History of Northwest Florida and Pensacola. Monday
night I was referring to a major event that happened here in
1906 ... and I started to say "early in this century" and had to
change it to "early in the last century!" So much for Y2K
compliancy! But, of course, don't centuries run 1-100s....
so 2000 is still the 19th century?
SNIP
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