Re: happy new years

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Dennis Paul Himes wrote:

> Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> wrote:
> >
> > Here's a new wor dto dscribe the new century (It is a new cntury, despite,
> > the lack of a year zero).
>
>     All my life, and presumably yours, we've heard times being refered to as
> being in the Nth Century, for some positive integer N, such as "19th Century
> writer" or "17th Century painting".  It's always meant "the 100 years ending
> with the year 100 times N".  Why change it now?  Somehow, to me at least,
> "the turn of the century which is the last year of the 20th Century and the
> first 99 years of the 21st Century" doesn't have quite the same impact that
> "the turn of the 21st Century" does.
What I meant was, every year is the beginning of a new century.