Twenty-ohh-two
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.
I know this post was quite a while ago, but I thought I’d comment - apparently Radio 4 newsreaders took inspiration from Charlotte Green who, at the turn of the millennium, decided that the year sounded better pronounced like that.
I recall a ‘report’ on the Today programme (or possibly PM) about it, but Google’s not so forthcoming..
Great blog, by the way - shame it’s not more regularly updated.
j
Comment by james — Tuesday, December 6, 2005 @ 4:36 pm