[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

If I may add my sob story....I'm bugged by our calendar.  Quick
what date is Thanksgiving this year?  Different numbers of days
in different months, leap years, leap seconds...yikes.

Oh, please, if you want to tilt at windmills, how about changing our counting language to something sane?

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten--Fine

eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty -- WTF?

twenty, twenty-one, etc. -- rational. So why not, ten-one? Or tenty and tenty-one if you prefer?

-a


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