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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:The Joy of Lex
Notice:A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:THEBAY::SYSTEM
Created:Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1192
Total number of notes:42769

827.0. "fin de what?" by ESCROW::MUNZER () Tue Sep 18 1990 20:08

Can anyone please explain the proper usage of the phrase "fin de si�cle"?

It evidently was applied to the end of the 19th Century, and I've heard it used
for the end of the 20th.

Thanks,
John
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827.1Like "The Naughty Nineties"MINAR::BISHOPTue Sep 18 1990 21:143
    It means "end of the century", and until recently was only used of
    the end of the 19th.
    				-John Bishop