Talk:year

12 month period
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 * Any period of twelve months.

First, a "month" is not an accurate measure of time. Even taking a very modern, Western view of the world, by today's practices 12 months can easily be anything from 360 to 366 days, and arguably outside of that range as well. If this definition is supposed to mean a certain amount of time, then it would be redundant in the first place, and it should not be stated in terms of months, which is not "exact" in any shape or form.

Furthermore, not all calendars use 12 months. Some lunar calendars still in use have leap years with 13 months, and certainly the possibilities are much more varied. If this relates to a calendar month then it should be rewritten to state more precisely whatever the intent is. Davilla 15:30, 17 March 2006 (UTC)


 * You're probably right. I didn't have a clue where my example sentence should have appeared. &mdash; Vildricianus 15:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

A level or grade in school or college.
like a translation into Spanish from "year" at least in Chile (country where I live) is "año" alike, and so I add it. In other countries it is "grado" (grade).

How to pronounce some numbers when they express a year?

 * 2000 - two thousand
 * 2001 - two thousand one
 * 1999 - nineteen ninety-nine
 * 1909 - nineteen oh nine, oh nine, ought nine
 * 1901 - nineteen oh one, oh one, ought one
 * 1900 - nineteen hundred
 * 1800 - eighteen hundred
 * 1700 - seventeen hundred
 * 1600 - sixteen hundred
 * 1100 - eleven hundred
 * 1099 - ten ninety-nine
 * 1000 - year one thousand
 * 999 - year nine ninety-nine
 * etc...
 * etc...

I know 1990s and 1980s are nineteen nineties and nineteen eighties. But what about 1900s, 1910s, 1800s, etc, 1000s, 100s, 10s?

Thanks in advance. Ferike333 09:56, 26 June 2009 (UTC)


 * the nineteen hundreds (it means the whole century, not the first ten years), the nineteen tens, the eighteen hundreds, 1000s = the eleventh century (one cannot say "the one thousands"), 100s = the first milenium (can’t say "the hundreds"), 10s = year one to year ten. This is how I would say them. —Stephen 10:34, 26 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Hmm, the 10s would rather be between 10 and 20, and the 100s are properly "the second century". – Krun 10:54, 26 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually between 10 and 19. Mglovesfun (t) 10:57, 26 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks a much to y'all. Ferike333 15:15, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Vernal Equinox Year
Our current definition based on the mean tropical year has been occasionally used in the ancient past, but most definitions of a year throughout history, certainly in those cultures influenced by the Abrahamic religions, have defined a year as the time between vernal equinoxes, currently 365.2424 days. Would anyone object to this slight change in the definition?  D b f  i  r  s   23:01, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

1950
I know the two sentences are not related to each other, but 1950 was the Year of the Tiger. People seeing these two sentences together could start remembering wrong facts. --129.206.221.127 10:22, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

with each/every passing year
Should with each/every passing year be added? why? --Backinstadiums (talk) 13:13, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Rhymes
I’ve added a link to show that year can be indistinguishable from the first part of the word yearn and so rhyme with words like fir. We have this listed as a pronunciation for ‘Wales and other regions’ and it’s very much the dominant pronunciation in Birmingham (the one in England) where I’m from originally and the other regions referred to would include North East England, South Africa and even some conservative West Country (South West England) dialects and some RP speakers. There are some very old sound recordings from the 1900s through to the 1920s on YouTube where Americans can be heard to say it in a similar but rhotic way though, like the traditional West Country pronunciation. One was from Georgia and another from New York State. That leaves me with three questions: Firstly, in which regions did Americans say it like this; secondly, are there Americans who still use this pronunciation; thirdly, when did this pronunciation die out in the American regions where they used to say it like this? Overlordnat1 (talk) 20:51, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I’ve found examples of Devon(shire) dialect and Appalachian dialect uses of ‘yur’ on GoogleBooks, so I have just created a ‘pronunciation spelling’ or ‘eye dialect’ entry under yur, reflecting the fact that this can be a pronunciation of year in various dialects. I might add yare as another eye dialect which I think might be attested on GoogleBooks (especially as used by Geordies) but I see we already have yeah for that purpose (though no supporting quotes currently appear on this sense of our yeah entry). Overlordnat1 (talk) 13:04, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Several broadly accented Dubliners say 'yur' here(13:10 for example). Also Irish comic singer from Carlow says it here (maybe it was in another of his acting parts on YT - I can't hear him say it here tbh). The famous Mancunian painter Lowry says it here. Also in an interview with the one-hit wonder band 'Brian and Michael' who had a song about Lowry, they can be heard saying 'yur'. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 02:24, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Also Bete Davis says ‘yur’ it in S4E16 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (‘Out There - Darkness’), so it must’ve been a feature of the poshest mid-Atlantic accents. Overlordnat1 (talk) 18:01, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Yod coalescence
"In common set phrases such as 'last year' or 'next year' where the preceeding word ends with a or, yod coalescence may strongly occur, resulting a pronunciation of (e.g.)." I would add this to the article but I don't have any sources or info on in what regions this occurs. – Nixinova [&zwnj;T|C] 05:44, 24 July 2023 (UTC)


 * That’s how I say it and I’m from the West Midlands, originally Birmingham. Assuming it were a true statement (it isn’t), I could be heard saying “Las chur I was a thir jur student”. Overlordnat1 (talk) 18:05, 3 October 2023 (UTC)