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Have the terms "the twenties," "the sixties," "the nineties," etc. always referred to the decade of the previous century, or is this a relatively recent development?

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Have the terms "the twenties," "the sixties," "the nineties," etc. always referred to the decade of the previous century, or is this a relatively recent development?	589