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06:33 Jan 2, 2005 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Poetry & Literature / The passage of time | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Nesrin United Kingdom Local time: 20:48 | ||||||
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4 +5 | turn of the century that just ended |
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5 +3 | Context |
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5 +1 | entering into a new century and end of the other |
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3 +2 | See comment below... |
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4 | transition to one cetury to another |
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2 +1 | end of 19th/beginning of 20th century |
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Discussion entries: 7 | |
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transition to one cetury to another Explanation: Turn of the century refers to a transition of one cetury to another, namely from 19th century to 20th century, from 20th century to 21st, for instance. In other words, turn of century means year 1899 to year 1900, 1999 to 2000, thereby the turn is 1900 and 2000 respectively in this instance. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 26 mins (2005-01-02 06:59:52 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Correction -- \"from\" (not \"to\") one cetury to another |
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Context Explanation: The expression can also be used rather vaguely meaning several year around that time. So I would say you have to go by context. This is confirmed by my first Google hit "The Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880 - 1920, collection contains 25000 photographs of turn-of-the-century ... memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs 25 mins (2005-01-02 08:59:13 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- In response to your note on forward or backward, my feelings as a native speaker are to vaguely look forward, although I find absolutely nothing wrong with how the Detroit Publ. Co. use it either. If you asked me for a spontaneous sentence using turn of the cent. I would say: \"My grandparents came to America at the t-of-the-c.\" and I would mean around 1905. Context, context, context - and as to your question, circa or around 1900, 2000, etc. would be essentially the same time span. Thanks for interesting question. |
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