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Archive Home > 2012 > January > 31 > Deciphering Super Bowl: XLVI is Greek to children

Deciphering Super Bowl: XLVI is Greek to children

What’s wrong with simply calling Sunday’s game 46?

By Leanne Italie / The Bulletin
January 31, 2012

NEW YORK — Kids LOL and OMG each other all the livelong day, but ask them to decipher the XLVI of this year’s Super Bowl and you might as well be talking Greek.

They may know what X means, or V and I, but Roman numerals beyond the basics have largely gone the way of cursive and penmanship as a....

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