On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 19:33, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
A decade in Icelandic starts at x where x is a number
ending in one
and ends nine years later, so for example the period 1991–2000 is the
"tenth decade" of the twentieth century. This is unlike English where
a decade would be the period from 1990 to 1999 and be called the
"1990s" or "nineties" for short.
This is indeed true.
Similarly, the "twentieth century" begins in
1901 and ends in 2000,
unlike the English twentieth century which begins in 1900 and ends in
1999.
However, this is not true. Traditionally "twentieth century" means
1901-2000 in English.
So, if any of you know another language which uses the
same info reply
to this email, and we can then link to it.
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Abi