[WikiEN-l] Interwiki links for the Icelandic decade articles.

[Abigail Brady]

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.

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Abi