Of course I did realize that it had to mean 1890s, but I just realized that “The roaring twenties” is the earliest decade I knew a label for. I never heard about “The gay nineties” before (though I suspect that “gay” had a different meaning then). Did other earlier decades have labels like that? Will “The roaring twenties” be forgotten once we have a new “twenties”?
Of course I did realize that it had to mean 1890s, but I just realized that “The roaring twenties” is the earliest decade I knew a label for. I never heard about “The gay nineties” before (though I suspect that “gay” had a different meaning then). Did other earlier decades have labels like that? Will “The roaring twenties” be forgotten once we have a new “twenties”?