I don’t know if anybody else has noticed the strange occurrence on BBC Radio 4 news. The news readers all seem to pronounce any year from the century, well, strangely.
Whereas most of us would say Two-thousand and four that isn’t good enough for Radio 4. No they insist on twenty-ohh-four. What’s the problem I hear you ask? The major problem I have is that I have to think about what year they are referring to. I don’t want to spend my precious brain energy having to figure out the year – I want to be able to concentrate on the news.