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The Word

Numbers game

By Jan Freeman
January 8, 2006

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YES, IT'S 2006--do you know how you're going to pronounce it? In last week's column, we mentioned just two ways to say the number: There's two thousand and six , the more popular version, and twenty-oh-six , favored by a vocal minority that includes CBS's Charles Osgood. (Full article: 723 words)

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