Twenty-Ten or Two Thousand Ten?

[Standard]

So how are the fine folks here on XMarksTheScot going to refer to the new year? Will you refer to it as Twenty-Ten, will it be Two Thousand Ten, or something else?

[GDub]

..."Eighteen-ten," "Nineteen-ten" and now "Twenty-ten"... for the next nine decades the current year will roll trippingly off the tongue!

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

"twenty-ten", sort of like "ten-sixty-six"...

[piperdbh]

"twenty-ten", sort of like "ten-sixty-six"...

Were you there in 1066?

[Riverkilt]

Mmx ..........

Okay what's going on...I type M M X without the spaces and the machine changes the last two to lower case...doesn't it think I know what I want to type....quartz should be sand on a beach...

[Paul]

Twenty Ten. The year for Scotland to shine once again

[JSFMACLJR]

Twenty-ten for me, until I forget and call it Two thousand ten!

[Rex_Tremende]

I think it will become "twenty-nn" when there are more syllables in the second half of the year.

Regards,
Rex.

[Mael Coluim]

Interesting question. Back in ninety nine, I was sure we would be calling the next year the "double aught". Then aught one, aught two, etc. Never happened. I did from time to time refer to years in the decade that way, and got blank stares.

What I head from others was two thousand and then the number. I think that will continue with most. But twenty ten has a nice ring. We'll see.

[macwilkin]

Interesting question. Back in ninety nine, I was sure we would be calling the next year the "double aught". Then aught one, aught two, etc. Never happened. I did from time to time refer to years in the decade that way, and got blank stares.

What I head from others was two thousand and then the number. I think that will continue with most. But twenty ten has a nice ring. We'll see.

I would say "aught one", etc. and get those same blank stares. I remember my grandparents saying that to refer to 1901, etc.

T.