Twenty-Ten or Two Thousand Ten?

[lethearen]

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

T.

Similar here, no one understood what I meant with "double-naught", so I started just calling the years "oh-X". I think I'll keep that convention. This year will be "oh-ten"

[O'Callaghan]

I don't care as long as you don't call it two-ten, like some woman on the radio did the other day. I'm sorry, but that was 800 years ago!

[The Guy in the Kilt at UC]

I don't care as long as you don't call it two-ten, like some woman on the radio did the other day. I'm sorry, but that was 800 years ago!

1800, but who counts these things anyways. It's kinda like saying Sir Newton's birthday is on Christmas.

[Coinneach]

A friend of mine wrote a short article on this just a week or so ago. His vote was for twenty-ten.

However, I believe, linguistically-speaking, that two thousand ten is more proper as many non-English languages do "count" the years (e.g., 1999 was "one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine").

My other half has a customer support job where he helps people with, as he puts it, their "oh nine" and "oh ten" items. "Oh ten?" That's just wrong!

[Lachlan09]

Two Thousand and Ten for me.

[robthehiker]

"Twenty ten". Conventions don't get carried from decade to decade. Witness the car companies referring to their 2010 models as "oh tens". Were they "nine ninety nines" in 1999? Do you think they they'll be "oh forty fours" in 2044?

[Sylvain]

I voted Two thousand and ten, but, in fact, I say deux mille dix.

[Larry124]

It will definitely be "Twenty-Twenty" in 2020 so to be "ahead of the curve" (a now thankfully obsolescent expression) it's "Twenty-Ten" for me.

Especially since the world will end in Twenty-Twelve*, so we won't actually arrive at 2020. Sigh.

*Just kidding. Kilted gentleman (and their lasses) will be spared; so all is well.

Happy New Year!

[starbkjrus]

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

I'm with Sandy on this one. Twenty-oh-nine (or those before it) never worked for me so now that the naught-ies (that doesn't look right but I'm tired of playing with speel-check ) are gone I'm all over it. Twenty-xx is all good.

It will definitely be "Twenty-Twenty" in 2020

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I'm Bawbawa Wawa and THIS is 2020. hehehehehehe

[Jock Scot]

Two thousand and ten, sounds better to me.