# Old-timers' pronunciations of years 1901-1909

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> [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](#):
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> I have occasionally heard the form of “Nineteen and five”.

My Grandfather, born 1900 and hailed from Missouri, used this notation. “Nineteen-and-five”, “Nineteen-and-fifteen”, etc. Wonder if it was a regional thing?

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