Do the fine folks at ESPN not realize that a decade is ten years, not nine? The Twenty-First Century's first decade ends on December 31st, 2010.
Reminds Kiddwell of the numbskulls who were trumpeting the year 2000 as the "new millennium." Huh? A millennium is 1000 years. It starts with "year one" and ends with "year thousand." So the END of the second millennium would be its one-thousandth year--that is, 1000 X 2 = 2000.
Correspondingly, the BEGINNING of the new millennium (the third) would be year two thousand and ONE. <Kiddwell is ranting.>
Bardo et al, try "end of decade" talk again December, 2010...when the decade REALLY ends.
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Reminds Kiddwell of the numbskulls who were trumpeting the year 2000 as the "new millennium." Huh? A millennium is 1000 years. It starts with "year one" and ends with "year thousand." So the END of the second millennium would be its one-thousandth year--that is, 1000 X 2 = 2000.
Correspondingly, the BEGINNING of the new millennium (the third) would be year two thousand and ONE. <Kiddwell is ranting.>
Bardo et al, try "end of decade" talk again December, 2010...when the decade REALLY ends.
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