Twenty-Ten or Two Thousand Ten?

[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--

[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"

[Rob]

Two thousand and ten, sounds better to me.

Quite right. "Two thousand ten" is an Americanism.

[JSFMACLJR]

Well, eight days into the year I find myself saying both "two thousand and ten" and "twenty ten." Neither one seems to predominate...yet!

[Larry124]

Quite right. "Two thousand ten" is an Americanism.

See any number of books and citations on how the ways of expressing things have traveled back and forth and back and forth again across the pond.
My favorite is “The American Language” (Revised and enlarged 1921) by H.L. Mencken.

[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