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Old 11-18-2019, 03:26 PM   #16
Clodfobble
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I've thought more about it, and I'm going to go ahead and declare a particular linguistic nuance:

When it is an adjective, people are more likely to say "twenty." When it is a noun, they say "two thousand."

Consider:

"Back in two thousand fourteen"
"The twenty-fourteen Olympic games"

"When Donald Trump was elected in two thousand sixteen"
"The twenty-sixteen election"
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