The name for our new milenium what do we call it???

[JimmyH155]

Hey guys and girls!!
What do you think we are going to call these years?
Half of the people talk about twenty ten

the other half talk about two thousand and ten.
What is going to win out????
In the last century it was all nineteen ten - not one thousand nine hundred and ten.
nineteen 14 for instance
Yet we all talk about the end times Is it twenty twelve or two thousand and twelve??
All to do with phonetics is it???
Comments please

[supernova1965 (Warren)]

I reckon it's got to be twenty ten sounds right to me. Should set up a poll

[leon]

Yea it is about time people got it right, this issue i posted some time ago, it should be 20 ten and so on.

Imagine saying in the future 2 thousand 1 hundred and 37, instead of 2137.

Leon

[Screwdriverone (Chris)]

Tweens? as in, Twenty Teens? That's for the next decade I spose....

As for the rest, considering Nineteen Eighty, Nineteen Eighty Four etc, these years should be Twenty ten etc.

Due to the fact that its counting 20 centuries and then 10 years, 11 and so on, Two Thousand and Eleven is just silly...

I certainly dont refer to the century that Galileo observed Jupiter as the One Thousand Six Hundreds....Its the Sixteen Hundreds!

Cheers

Chris

[noswonky (Peter)]

Both.

But the thread title is misleading. You are asking about how to pronounce individual years, not the name for the current millennium. I would call it 'millenium three'.

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Twenty ten rolls off the tongue easier than two-thousand and ten.

[leinad (Dan)]

Twitter Ten

[TrevorW]

Fubar

[OICURMT]

Originally Posted by lacad01

Twenty ten rolls off the tongue easier than two-thousand and ten.

I wonder how many people said last year twenty-oh-nine versus two thousand and nine?

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Give it a bit of time and we will all be saying 12, or 21, or 33 etc.

What do we say when people ask what year were you born?

I say '57, not nineteen fifty seven.

What car do you have (Pre 2000)?

An '86 Corolla? a '96 Commodore?

See. Give it time and we will be dropping the first two numbers anyway.

[OICURMT]

Good point... I remember back in 'oh-nine...

[pgc hunter]

I'm more inclined to call it "two thousand and ten" rather than "twenty ten".

[astro744]

Millennium