AS the first decade of the 21st Century draws to an end...

Superb...but I want more.

OK have another year and 21 days.

1: 2000
2: 2001
3: 2002
4: 2003
5: 2004
6: 2005
7; 2006
8: 2007
9; 2008
10:2009

I am such a smartarse.

2000 was the last year of the previous millenium actally.

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Originally posted by BigH47:
2000 was the last year of the previous millenium actally.

Correct ...

Mathematically correct of course, but millennium has 2 'n's.

This is the green version.

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Originally posted by shoot6x7:

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Originally posted by BigH47:
2000 was the last year of the previous millennium actually.

Correct ...

..and actually has a "u" in it too.

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Originally posted by BigH47:
2000 was the last year of the previous millenium actally.

The first mimellium started at year zero. If its zero, its the start.

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Originally posted by BigH47:
OK have another year and 21 days.

I'm with you on this. The decade ends over a year from now.

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Originally posted by Mike Lacey:

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Originally posted by BigH47:
2000 was the last year of the previous millenium actally.

The first mimellium started at year zero. If its zero, its the start.

The Romans [unlike the Arabs] had no number for zero.

Thus the years, Anno Domini, conventionally start with the Roman numeral I which equates to 1.

ATB from George

Mike is right.

The numbering of years that we currently use wasn't devised until the sixth century. It was based on an estimation of the number of years after some event. And it's not important anyway.

We start at 2000. When a year has passed we have got to 2001. When ten years have passed we get to 2010. 2010 is the start of a new decade. You may not like it, but that is the way it is.

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Originally posted by Bananahead:
You may not like it, but that is the way it is.

This can be argued almost endlessly, but I don't agree.

If you count 'to 10' you include 10.
No child given the request 'count to 10' would start at 0 and end with 9, even though there may be a logic to that.

Irrespective of how counter-intuitive this whole millennium/decade thing may seem, the year 2010 should be considered part of the first decade, as there was not a year zero (if there had been a year zero then there would also need to be a year -zero)

But it doesn't really matter - I imagine we can agree on that...

What's a mimellium?

Mine goes to 11

How was it for me?

Pretty poor, I lost both parents, some very good friends, got involved in a bad relationship and then split up.

Financially I had good years and bad, the last being the hardest I have ever known. I do finish the decade in a very happy position. Financially I may be on my knees but I am still here. I found a wonderful partner and am looking to 31st December when I can write of the year and start again.

I am happy and healthy and can't ask for anything more.

Regards

PB

Interesting covers it I think!

Married to a wonderful new wife. Working in the toyshop now but earning in a year what I used to earn in a good month, proving that money isn't everything.

Stupidly happy, passably healthy so no complaints here!

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Originally posted by rodwsmith:
If you count 'to 10' you include 10.
No child given the request 'count to 10' would start at 0 and end with 9, even though there may be a logic to that.
...

But if you were to ask a child born on 1st Jan 2000 how old they are, they would say "10 in 18 days time"

A decade where I moved into my 40s, saw my children grow from toddlers into beautiful young people, got promoted to Director, re-discovered hifi, met some great friends on here and saw England win the World Cup and the Ashes twice!

Not bad!

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Originally posted by Bananahead:
But if you were to ask a child born on 1st Jan 2000 how old they are, they would say "10 in 18 days time"

An English peculiarity, that "days (or years/hours etc) time" thing. My kids would say "in 18 days."

18 days time is actually redundant speech, as day(s) automatically says it is time, as day(s) is only a time measurement.

Also Americans say 2 thousand, 10 we say 2 thousand and ten, amongst many other things we differ on.

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No child given the request 'count to 10' would start at 0 and end with 9, even though there may be a logic to that.

[I kind of agree with what you're saying but,] strictly (which seems largely to be the point here ), no child, adult or anything in between would end at "9" if told to count to "10" (yours, smart arsedly...)

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Originally posted by living in lancs yearning for yorks:
[I kind of agree with what you're saying but,] strictly (which seems largely to be the point here ), no child, adult or anything in between would end at "9" if told to count to "10" (yours, smart arsedly...)

That being the point.
If you include '10' in the first lot of '10's, then the decade still has one year and 17 days to go, which was the point someone made earlier in the thread.

Company went bankrupt. After 17 years service, I lost my job, the shares I bought with my own money as part of a company savings scheme are worthless, and my pension is in jeopardy. It took 225 applications to get another job.

HOWEVER - at the risk of sounding smug, which honestly I'm not trying to do

I am healthy, have a lovely wife, my parents (after some small scares) are still alive and well, and I'm looking forward to spending Christmas with my family.

Money is not everything, peace of mind is more precious.