Who decided?

Jan. 27th, 2010 10:35 pm
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How come we call 1909 nineteen-oh-nine but 2009 as two thousand and nine? And suddenly it's 2010 and twenty-ten, not two thousand and ten? And how come 2000 was two thousand not twenty hundred?
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