Decades

saintpeter48 | 17:17 Thu 03rd Sep 2020 | ChatterBank

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If the 1920s is called the 20s and 1930s is called the 30s etc, what do you call the period 1901-1909 and 1911-1919?
Thanks in advance.

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Jackdaw33

Thank you Ich.

Old_Geezer

I have always contended that they missed a trick when creating CE and BCE and opting to keep them the same as AD and BC. By simply making 1BC equal to year 0 (CE ?) they could, at a stroke, have corrected that date error with minimal confusion. But no, they didn't have enough sense.