Twenty-Ten or Two Thousand Ten?

[Dirka Skene]

Doesn't really matter to me either way. I'll be saying and writing 2009 until 2011.

[Pleater]

I was just asked how to write the year, for my first cheque from someone with a broken machine I fixed and, without thinking, I said t'woh-ten. She had written 2100, but I don't think I'll be here to cash that one.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[jordanjm]

I voted other, because I use both interchangeably.

[Kilt_Like_Objects]

I think the most relevant issue here is that we already have a convention which we adapt to this problem.

If I had $1300, I might say I have "thirteen hundred dollars" or "one thousand, three hundred dollars".

If, though I had $2000, I could say "two thousand dollars" or "2 grand" but never would we say "twenty hundred dollars". That would be silly.

We do, once it gets to 2100, get our pattern back. So saying "twenty one hundred dollars" is only as fair as "two thousand one hundred dollars".

So twenty ten is just silly.

I've been shortening it to aught (x) for the last nine years but much like the others here doing the same, had very little luck with understanding from the general public.

[Mr. Kilt]

Twenty-ten for me.
Our house was built in 1910. I always say "Nineteen-ten" for that, so why would 2010 be any different?
As for 2001-2009...I always just said "aught-one, two, three", etc.

[Larry124]

A TV commercial promo just called it "two K ten" and illustrated it "2K10".

[Jack Daw]

I'm already referrng to it as, "twenty-ten", but I've even heard 2K10 elsewhere, as I see Larry124 noticed.

[Squeaky McMurdo]

"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?

Tehehe, I heard that on the radio "oh ten" from a car dealership and was amused.

I'll be calling this year two thousand ten.

twenty ten never even occurred to me...Maybe it's the media influencing people about what to call it? I don't have television.

--Chelsea McMurdo--

[CalMcGuire]

While the logic behind saying it twenty-ten is sound. I prefer the sound of two thousand ten. While dates like nineteen ten have flair when you say them, twenty ten is just boring, so I go for the thousand.

[ali8780]

Twenty-ten for me, in honor of myself turning twenty-ten this year

twenty-eleven sounds weird to me though, so next year it's back to "Two-thousand-eleven." Adding the and is just too wordy