How Do You Say It?

[Happy_Catholic]

[quote name='CatherineM' date='01 January 2010 - 04:13 PM' timestamp='1262380427' post='2028171']
The real question, is what will we call the 00's. The Zeros, the Oughts, Naughts, the Double Nils?
[/quote]

I was calling it the "naughties".

But to show you guys how boring it is down under, they had twenty minutes of a half hour current affairs programme devoted to this topic. They had assembled a panel of "experts" to discus the pros and cons of 20-10 and 2000-10.

Since Im' a patient person who's never in a rush, I say two thousand and ten. More syllables.

[zunshynn]

two thousand ten... We can't call it twenty ten until it's over and history. That is an authoritative statement, just so you know.

[Marie-Therese]

I use both.

As far as the previous decade goes, on a personal level, I prefer not to refer to it at all. It was so terrible I'd prefer to pretend it never happened and just move on to the next one. LOL

[dominicansoul]

the previous decade is the "twenty-ohs."

the next decade is the "twenty-tweens."

[laetitia crucis]

I'm more likely to use "two thousand ten" rather than "twenty-ten". I just think it sounds nicer. (Or maybe I just like the way "thousand" sounds when spoken aloud. )

As for the 00's -- what did people call 1900-1909? The "Early Nineteen-Hundreds"?

I suppose in our case, "Early Twenty-Hundreds" doesn't quite roll off the tongue as nicely...?

[Resurrexi]

It's two-thousand and ten.

[Gregorius]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='01 January 2010 - 11:03 PM' timestamp='1262405014' post='2028371']
It's [u]the year of Our Lord[/u] two-thousand and ten.
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Fixed it.

[littleflower+JMJ]

If i'm [i]at[/i] work, its two thousand ten.

If i'm [i]not[/i], its twenty-ten.

[Apotheoun]

Twenty-ten

[littleflower+JMJ]

[quote name='Apotheoun' date='02 January 2010 - 04:03 AM' timestamp='1262423032' post='2028531']
Twenty-ten
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[homeschoolmom]

[quote name='Resurrexi' date='01 January 2010 - 11:03 PM' timestamp='1262405014' post='2028371']
It's two-thousand and ten.
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Mathematically, it should not have an "and." 2010 =/= 2000.1

[zunshynn]

[quote]As for the 00's -- what did people call 1900-1909? The "Early Nineteen-Hundreds"?
[/quote]

They had more important things to be concerned about than to talk about the previous decade.

[Arpy]

I call it Stardate 63407.7.

[Sojourner]

Twenty ten. It flows so much more nicely.

[Moosey]

[quote name='Terra Firma' date='02 January 2010 - 01:09 PM' timestamp='1262452148' post='2028594']
Twenty ten. It flows so much more nicely.
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And is shorter than "Two Thousand Ten."