On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 19:33, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
A decade in Icelandic starts at x where x is a number ending in one and ends nine years later, so for example the period 1991–2000 is the "tenth decade" of the twentieth century. This is unlike English where a decade would be the period from 1990 to 1999 and be called the "1990s" or "nineties" for short.
This is indeed true.
Similarly, the "twentieth century" begins in 1901 and ends in 2000, unlike the English twentieth century which begins in 1900 and ends in 1999.
However, this is not true. Traditionally "twentieth century" means 1901-2000 in English.
So, if any of you know another language which uses the same info reply to this email, and we can then link to it.