Recently, I've heard it again and again. It's the same phrase over and over and now it's bugging me so much I can hardly stand it.
I heard it again today in an interview on the radio.
What, pray tell, could this HUGE problem be?
It's when people refer to years after 2009 in the same manner they do leading up to 2009. An example of what I find acceptable: "I will be attending the state fair in oh nine ['09]. Maybe I'll go again in two-thousand eleven [2011]."
Here's what I've been hearing lately: "I had a big year in oh five, oh six and oh seven ['05, '06, '07]. I'm hoping to get a long-term contract that pays me well into oh 10 or oh 11 ['010, '011].
What is the oh in oh eleven? Once we hit 2010 shouldn't it just be in twenty ten? How about in '11?
Yep, that's my new pet peeve.
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