Prepositions For single days and dates we use dates in bacon name. I was born on the 7th of the month.
My birthday is on September the 7th. It defines an epoch based on the traditionally-reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus of Nazareth. English language to denote years after the start of this time. BC, it is used in the English language to denote years before the start of this time. A century is a period of one hundred consecutive years. A decade is a period of 10 years.
The decades from 1920 to 1999, are called “the Twenties”, “the Sixties”, etc. But the current decade has no universally accepted name. Some refer to the decade as the “twenty hundreds” while others may refer to it as the “two thousands”. In written form, this could appear as “the ’00s” or “the 2000s”. But writing “the 2000s” or simply saying “the two-thousands” can cause confusion, since this could refer to the entire 21st century or even the entire millennium. You’ll find some more interesting facts about days and dates in the Interesting Facts Blog.
