Letter: Letter: Life in the teenies

Published 24 August 1991

From RICHARD CAIE

Can anyone please advise of a suitable name for the next two decades?

After eight self-naming decades will we soon be living in the ‘ones’,
‘singles’, ‘units’, ‘teens’ or ‘doubles’, etc?

Richard Caie Aberdeen, Scotland

Issue no. 1783 published 24 August 1991

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