What is the shelf life of decade names?
Here is a sentence from a book published in 1970 in Britain.
Ernest Bramah Smith ... was probably born in 1869 (it is curious that only two writers represented in this collection were not born in the sixties) and died in 1942.
And another, less remarkable one from a book published in 1957:
Studies of the ætiology of cholera showed that water so filtered was much less likely to transmit the disease and the process was put on scientific basis in the 'seventies and 'eighties when the rôle of bacteria...
Now this being the year 2019, most would be comfortable referring to the 1920's as simply the twenties. My question is how long, in general, can a decade 100 years old or older be called by its short name. I'd be interested in attestations of short-hand decade names for decades more than 100 years old.
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Here is a sentence from a book published in 1970 in Britain.
Ernest Bramah Smith ... was probably born in 1869 (it is curious that only two writers represented in this collection were not born in the sixties) and died in 1942.
And another, less remarkable one from a book published in 1957:
Studies of the ætiology of cholera showed that water so filtered was much less likely to transmit the disease and the process was put on scientific basis in the 'seventies and 'eighties when the rôle of bacteria...
Now this being the year 2019, most would be comfortable referring to the 1920's as simply the twenties. My question is how long, in general, can a decade 100 years old or older be called by its short name. I'd be interested in attestations of short-hand decade names for decades more than 100 years old.
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Here is a sentence from a book published in 1970 in Britain.
Ernest Bramah Smith ... was probably born in 1869 (it is curious that only two writers represented in this collection were not born in the sixties) and died in 1942.
And another, less remarkable one from a book published in 1957:
Studies of the ætiology of cholera showed that water so filtered was much less likely to transmit the disease and the process was put on scientific basis in the 'seventies and 'eighties when the rôle of bacteria...
Now this being the year 2019, most would be comfortable referring to the 1920's as simply the twenties. My question is how long, in general, can a decade 100 years old or older be called by its short name. I'd be interested in attestations of short-hand decade names for decades more than 100 years old.
phrase-usage
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Here is a sentence from a book published in 1970 in Britain.
Ernest Bramah Smith ... was probably born in 1869 (it is curious that only two writers represented in this collection were not born in the sixties) and died in 1942.
And another, less remarkable one from a book published in 1957:
Studies of the ætiology of cholera showed that water so filtered was much less likely to transmit the disease and the process was put on scientific basis in the 'seventies and 'eighties when the rôle of bacteria...
Now this being the year 2019, most would be comfortable referring to the 1920's as simply the twenties. My question is how long, in general, can a decade 100 years old or older be called by its short name. I'd be interested in attestations of short-hand decade names for decades more than 100 years old.
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