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Letter: Letters : . . . . .

Published 14 February 1998

From Mark A. O'Brien

fell@email.msn.com

I hate to cross swords with those of a cantankerous disposition, but you are
mistaken in your belief that the millennium begins on 1 January 2001. Birthdays
are celebrated at the end of the year because that is when an individual is a
year older—a baby is one year old at the end of its first year.

Issue no. 2121 published 14 February 1998

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