I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.

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There was a solid decade where the pattern broke, and so e people didn't get back into it.

Two thousand, two thousand one etc don't really work as "twenty oh-one", etc.

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