I just feel like we need to be more specific than saying things like “In the 1900s” or “In the mid-1900s.” Could we not give a decade? If I see “mid-1900s” I’m all, “1905? 1906” not “1966.”

@KimberlyHirsh It’s like some say “mid-century” then talking about a style, (from around the 1950s). What will they say in 2090?

@odd "mid-21st-century"? I don't know, I'm crotchety and tired and want the world to accommodate my brain that thinks of 1981-Y2K as the only real time. I know this is an unreasonable desire.

@KimberlyHirsh “Mid-1900s” also overlaps a world war that is usually (and fairly) thought of as a division between eras. I suppose to be fair though one could say the same about the mid-14th century in Europe, vis-a-vis the Black Death. Or the mid-11th in England.