Decade ("60s" or "sixties"), although this may leave it uncertain which century is meant. These references are frequently used to encapsulate popular culture or other widespread phenomena that dominated such a decade, as in "The Great Depression of the 1930s" or "The Roaring Twenties". However, the Gregorian calendar begins with the year 1. (There is no year "zero", and the year before AD 1 is 1 BC with nothing in between.) Therefore, its "first" decade is from AD 1 to AD 10, the "second" decade from AD 11 to AD 20, and so on. So, although "the 1960s" comprises the years
Singulative number 'louse'. (Bender 1983:124). In Dutch, singulative forms of collective nouns are occasionally made by diminutives: "snoep" "sweets, candy" → "snoepje" "sweet, piece of candy". These singulatives can be pluralised like most other nouns: "snoepjes" "several sweets, pieces of candy". Singulative number In linguistics, singulative number and collective number (abbreviated and ) are terms used when the grammatical number for multiple items is the unmarked form of a noun, and the noun is specially marked to indicate a single item. When a language using a collective-singulative system does mark plural number overtly, that form is called the plurative. This is the