>>>>Throwing this question to the jury: are we now in the year twenty oh seven or the year two thousand and seven?
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>>>Well as we say "nineteen-o-eight" I see nothing wrong with "twenty-o-seven". I'm all for saving syllables (which is why I'm peed off at people saying "WWW" every time they give out a URL, or CSI referring to a "gun-shot wound" (3 syllables) as a "GSW" (5) :-)
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>>And how do you like the "through and through", without ever saying it's "a through" when there's no exit wound?
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>Yeah, "through and through" would seem to suggest it went through 2 people - how can it go through one twice?

The explanation I heard is that it made two holes on the skin - one going in, one going out - but then they never call it a "through" when there's just one hole.