Twenty-Ten or Two Thousand 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.