> > > > > Brunnen-"what, you've been living in a cave since the early 1900s?"G
> > > >
> > > > Why yes. It was quite comfortable, too.
> > > >
> > > > Considering I wasn't born in the 1900s.
> > >
> > > You weren't? That either makes you less than two years old, or well over a hundred...
> > >
> > > Did you perhaps mean that you weren't born in the nineteenth century?
> > >
> > > Don Monkey
> >
> > I take "the 1900s" to mean the first decade of the twentieth century. That was how I meant it.
>
> Me too.

That makes sense. I wonder now if I am rare in using "The 1900's" to mean 1900-1999. In my parlance, "The 1800's" and "The nineteenth century" are synonymous. Does anyone else use the terms like this, or am I finally tapping into the reason why these concepts used to confuse me so much?

Don Monkey