Poll: How do you say 2010?

[Baculus]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/MN621BB41U.DTL&tsp=1

Aha! I feel vindicated. :-)

[Pwyl]

Doc Brown calls it twenty fifteen and he's a genius:

[Larry]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/MN621BB41U.DTL&tsp=1

The "20" should have been pronounced "twenty" all along, he said, pointing out that every year in the 20th century was pronounced "nineteen something."

" 'Twenty' follows 'nineteen.' 'Two thousand' does not follow 'nineteen.' It's logical."

It's a valid point. The year 1900 was "Nineteen hundred".

However, the counter:

$1900 is nineteen hundred dollars. But $2000 is two thousand dollars.

[#98QBKiller]

However, the counter:

$1900 is nineteen hundred dollars. But $2000 is two thousand dollars.

Or more commonly "two grand." Maybe we can start that? "Two grand plus ten..." never mind.

[Kosher Ham]

Now that I think about it I might just say 10. I wasn't around for 1910. Most likely wont be around for 2110.

The funny part will be saying, "that was back in ten or eleven".

We say "63, and 83" now.

[skinfan133]

I seriously point and laugh at people who still say 'two thousand and x'

"that was SO last decade"

to be fair though, VMI conditioned me to say twenty x last year and I've been doing it ever since.

[Larry]

to be fair though, VMI conditioned me to say twenty x last year and I've been doing it ever since.

Yeah, but I bet they also told you that the first letter of the alphabet is "Alpha", too, didn't they?

[skinfan133]

Yeah, but I bet they also told you that the first letter of the alphabet is "Alpha", too, didn't they?

yessir

[Darth Tater]

I've been finding myself calling it that for months now :hysterical:

So used to saying Oh-nine, that it just flows

Incorrect, it was aut-9, o you can say to your grandkiddies: "I remember back in aut-7 when the Redskins last went to the playoffs..."

[Renegade7]

twenty ten. two thousand and ten is too many syllables, imo.

[SonOfWashington]

"Two point zero one times ten to the third power"

2.01 x 10^3

Scientific notation, fools.

[Mickalino]

I think I'll say 2k10. not really. Twenty ten sounds right.

two thousand ten but i think twenty ten will be the regular way of saying it and ill eventually switch over

Twenty ten.

Decades=the tens.

Twenty Ten

i say Two thousand AND ten

jk i say twenty ten.

I don't think many people in 1910 were debating whether to call it "Nineteen-Ten" or "One thousand nine-hundred ten"

Twenty ten it is.

People still look at you kind of funny if you say twenty-ten, but it'll switch over.

Most people say "two-thousand ten"? Really? Why is that?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/MN621BB41U.DTL&tsp=1

Aha! I feel vindicated. :-)

It's a valid point. The year 1900 was "Nineteen hundred".

However, the counter:

$1900 is nineteen hundred dollars. But $2000 is two thousand dollars.

twenty ten. two thousand and ten is too many syllables, imo.

Hypocrites.

If "Twenty Ten is the correct way to say it, then why didn't everyone stay consistent for the last decade. With that logic, we should have called 2001, "Twenty Oh-One", but no, everyone called it 2 thousand One.

Just like beginning 1901 through 1909, they called it Nineteen Oh-One, and NOT One thousand Nine hunded and One, which is the equivalent of 2 Thousand One.

So, the question is, why is everyone waiting almost a decade to debate, or insist on the grammatical way of saying it, if they've been doing it wrong since 2001. According to this "newfound logic and grammar", it should have been pronouces, Twenty Oh-One, Twenty Oh-Two, Twenty Oh-Three, Twenty Oh-Four, Twenty Oh-Five, Twenty Oh-Six, Twenty Oh-Seven, Twenty Oh-Eight, Twenty Oh-Nine, which would bring us to the supposed Twenty-Ten. So why the decade long delay in getting the grammar right ?

[Sebowski]

I like 2oughtTen

[SoCalSkins]

Ten. The 2000 is assumed. It is actually simple now. Before I would say o eight or o nine. Now it is ten, eleven and so on. The decades are easier as well. The ten's twenties etc.

[December90]

26 years ago we called this movie

Two Thousand Ten - The Year We Make Contact

[#98QBKiller]

Hypocrites.

If "Twenty Ten is the correct way to say it, then why didn't everyone stay consistent for the last decade. With that logic, we should have called 2001, "Twenty Oh-One", but no, everyone called it 2 thousand One.

Just like beginning 1901 through 1909, they called it Nineteen Oh-One, and NOT One thousand Nine hunded and One, which is the equivalent of 2 Thousand One.

So, the question is, why is everyone waiting almost a decade to debate, or insist on the grammatical way of saying it, if they've been doing it wrong since 2001. According to this "newfound logic and grammar", it should have been pronouces, Twenty Oh-One, Twenty Oh-Two, Twenty Oh-Three, Twenty Oh-Four, Twenty Oh-Five, Twenty Oh-Six, Twenty Oh-Seven, Twenty Oh-Eight, Twenty Oh-Nine, which would bring us to the supposed Twenty-Ten. So why the decade long delay in getting the grammar right ?

Wow this is a serious subject for you isn't it Mick?

[Dan T.]

I say "Nineteen ninety six."

(So I'm living in the past. Sue me.)

[DCsportsfan53]

You completely ruined this poll by adding Mike Shanahan as an option, lol. Had that choice not been there I would've chosen twenty-ten.

[Renegade7]

Hypocrites.

If "Twenty Ten is the correct way to say it, then why didn't everyone stay consistent for the last decade. With that logic, we should have called 2001, "Twenty Oh-One", but no, everyone called it 2 thousand One.

Just like beginning 1901 through 1909, they called it Nineteen Oh-One, and NOT One thousand Nine hunded and One, which is the equivalent of 2 Thousand One.

So, the question is, why is everyone waiting almost a decade to debate, or insist on the grammatical way of saying it, if they've been doing it wrong since 2001. According to this "newfound logic and grammar", it should have been pronouces, Twenty Oh-One, Twenty Oh-Two, Twenty Oh-Three, Twenty Oh-Four, Twenty Oh-Five, Twenty Oh-Six, Twenty Oh-Seven, Twenty Oh-Eight, Twenty Oh-Nine, which would bring us to the supposed Twenty-Ten. So why the decade long delay in getting the grammar right ?

Hypocrite? I don't know about anybody else, but "the year two thousand" sounds a helluva lot better then "the year twenty hundred" or whatever it was supposed to be called. At the end of the day, I'll look back at this decade as the "two-thousands". It was cool being around for the beginning of another millenium, but now it's time to get back to reality. Leave the "two-thousands" as the exception to "the rule". It's like saying "I remember the 80's, or the 90's, or the 2000s".

Don't call us hypocrites just because we disagree with you. Who the hell made you in charge of the official astrological decade naming convention committee?

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