The year is just three days old and already are some people bickering over the way to pronounce 2010.
Say the year '1810' out loud. Now say the year '1999' out loud. See a pattern? It's been easier, faster, and shorter to say years this way for every decade (except for the one that just ended) instead of saying the number the long way.
However, many people are carrying the way they said years from last decade over to this decade as a bad habit. If we don't fix this now, we'll be stuck saying years the long way for the next 89 years. Don't let that happen!
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Say it the way you want to say it.
How about Two Oh One Oh? :)
While I agree twenty ten sounds best when I comes to next year twenty eleven just doesn't roll off the tongue so I will probably say two thousand eleven.
Thank you for bringing this up. I have already corrected a dozen or so people on this. Usually they respond with "oh you're right, that does make more sense"
It's "two thousand ten", it's easier to say. It's also correct English.
...it wont matter by twenty twelve ;)
"It's "two thousand ten", it's easier to say. It's also correct English."
Actually, I think you'll find that's American English. Here in England the correct way of saying numbers is two thousand AND ten.
TweeDuizendTien of TwintigTien?
To Robb (in Dutch):
Ik denk dat het allebei kan, alhoewel ik de voorkeur geef aan tweeduizendtien.
I suppose a lot of people are like me, and haven't said "two thousand" since... 2000. I've called the years "oh-six" or "oh-nine" since then. So this one is all new. It was easy last century, when the higher numbers always meant the year, but with low numbers, just saying "ten" would be confusing, since we use those low numbers for so many other things.
How about just "Ten".
I vote for the Roman MMX!
It's "two thousand ten". "Two thousand AND ten", written out numerically, would be 2000.10. And none of this "twenty-something-or-other" nonsense, unless it's 2012. And only because all the paranoids and over-used it to no end.
the 1999 only works because nineteen was the hundreds like i bought a car for eighteen hundred bucks but nobody ever says i bought my car for 20 hundred
as to the 10ths being on the other side of the and well wouldnt it actually be twothousand and 10 tenths
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