how would you pronounce 2010?

[Revy]

In English, I think it's better to say twenty ten.

I don't think it should be pronounced two thousand ten, or any year in the 2010's should be pronounced like that.

We don't say 1910 as "one thousand nine hundred and ten". Yes, we did pronounce 2009 as "two thousand nine" but only because it is a new millenium. But that would apply only to the first decade.

I watched on TV how a few people were pronouncing it twenty ten and others were pronouncing it two thousand ten.

I am aware that other languages would say it in their own language as two thousand ten, but they would also pronounce 1999 as "one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine". Which would sound very odd in English.

[(A)narcho-Matt]

twenty ten defo. I also think twenty tens for the decade, I cant stand people saying tenties or all the other variations...

[F9]

In greek we say them with all the number, beside 1990- 1999 which were called by their last 2 digits. 95 was 1995, 99 was 1999 etc, but now we call them all two thousand ... nine, ten, eleven etc. Twenty ten dont makes and much sense really to me. twenty ten i would call the 20th day of October..

[Sean]

Two thousand and...

A strange sectarian quirk of northern Ireland btw, is that you can tell with quite a good margin of error who went to a catholic/de la salle school and who went to a protestant school by the way they pronounce the last century. The use of "and" has never been used by kids from catholic schools in northern ireland to my mind.

Ridiculous how we can find ways to divide our fellow man, isnt it? That said, I appearantly have "taigy" eyes.:)

[RedAnarchist]

I say twenty-ten.


Two thousand and...

A strange sectarian quirk of northern Ireland btw, is that you can tell with quite a good margin of error who went to a catholic/de la salle school and who went to a protestant school by the way they pronounce the last century. The use of "and" has never been used by kids from catholic schools in northern ireland to my mind.

Ridiculous how we can find ways to divide our fellow man, isnt it? That said, I appearantly have "taigy" eyes.:)

I've been told by a few people that I look Eastern European. How you "look" like an Eastern European I don't know. AFAIK, I have no recent ancestry from Eastern Europe.

[More Fire for the People]

Two-thousand ten or oh'ten.

[FreeFocus]

I say two-thousand ten.

[LOLseph Stalin]

lol, Funny this was brought up as I just had a discussion about this with somebody else today. Anyway, I generally say Twenty-Ten.

[CELMX]

:Dmy cuz and i were totally fighting over this dumb thing

two thousand ten, all the way

(does where you live effect how you say it? I'm from the states, so...)

[Pirate Utopian]

Two thousand and ten.

[commyrebel]

does it really matter its all correct why do you even care about it that much there is no defined way and there never will be unless politicly correct people who always have to have things right come in and something and who cares what they say anyways

[Orange Juche]

I have illogical and semi-psychotic pet peeves, people calling it "two thousand an ten" being one.

It's "twenty ten." Anything else sounds tacky and thoughtless. I'd go in on a bet that says the people who say "two thousand and ten" have a higher likelihood of not realizing that the decade didn't just end, and doesn't end until January 1, 2011.

[RedAnarchist]

I have illogical and semi-psychotic pet peeves, people calling it "two thousand an ten" being one.

It's "twenty ten." Anything else sounds tacky and thoughtless. I'd go in on a bet that says the people who say "two thousand and ten" have a higher likelihood of not realizing that the decade didn't just end, and doesn't end until January 1, 2011.

No, the decade started on January 1st. The only reason the millenium started in 2001 was because there was no Year Zero - the decades are still considered to be 00-10, 10-20, 20-30 etc because people group them into tens like that - 1970 was not part of the Sixties, it was part of the Seventies. 1989 wasn't part of the Nineties, it was part of the Eighties.

[Tyrlop]

Tigers

[Il Medico]

Twenty Ten.

[Sendo]

I alternate between "Twenty-hundred Ten" and "Two Aught Ten"

[Angry Young Man]

I think as of the 20th of April, it should be pronounced 'the year 21'

But seen as we base our dates around some more-than-likely nonexistant 2010-year old, Twenty Ten. As for the new millenium viewpoint, what year did William the Conqueror come? One Thousand and Sixty-six? No

[Intifadah]

zolo, zoll, zolz etc

[革命者]

:Dmy cuz and i were totally fighting over this dumb thing

two thousand ten, all the way

(does where you live effect how you say it? I'm from the states, so...)So you say dos mil y diez :p ?

I'd go for twenty ten. Rarely have to decide, though.

["Red Scum"]

twenty ten:thumbup1:

[Bilan]

I pronounce it Two-thousand and ten, for two-thousand ten sounds stupid, and twenty ten is even worse. I say this because it is ten years since the year 2000. You would not do an equation, say, 2000 plus 10, and then say the answer is twenty-ten. No, you would say the answer is two-thousand and ten.

[BobKKKindle$]

I pronounce it Two-thousand and ten, for two-thousand ten sounds stupid, and twenty ten is even worse. I say this because it is ten years since the year 2000. You would not do an equation, say, 2000 plus 10, and then say the answer is twenty-ten. No, you would say the answer is two-thousand and ten.

What a crap argument. If you did the equation 1900+75 then the answer would be one thousand nine hundred and seventy-fine. If someone asked you what year the Vietnam War came to an end, though, you would say nineteen seventy-five. Because dates and mathematical equations are, you know, not the same thing. Either conceptually or in the way the end result is pronounced.

The only correct way is twenty ten.

[Robocommie]

I'm in an alternate time stream, so I say forty-sixty three.

No but I'm probably going to say twenty-ten. WWI started in nineteen-fourteen, didn't it? And didn't WWII end in nineteen-forty five? And I'm pretty sure man first walked on the moon in nineteen-sixty nine. Etc, etc.

One thing I love about this new century stuff is that we're going to get to say we're living in the '20s. Tommy guns and fedoras all around!

[Sam_b]

nineteen seventeen

[Angry Young Man]

No but I'm probably going to say twenty-ten. WWI started in nineteen-fourteen, didn't it?

Back then, wouldn't they have said nineteen hundred and fourteen?

But multiples of 1000 are never -hundreds in the way other multiples of 100 are. For example "being from Yarmouth, Scarlet ghoul thought that the world was forty hundred years old" wouldn't work as well as "Being from Norwich, Kevis' ancestors have a fifteen-hundred year tradition of inbreeding, starting with the fall of Rome"

But there are fewer syllables in twenty ten, and to me, thousands without hundreds sound lonely. What happens when it's CE450,004?

[Sam_b]

For example "being from Yarmouth, Scarlet ghoul thought that the world was forty hundred years old" wouldn't work as well as "Being from Norwich, Kevis' ancestors have a fifteen-hundred year tradition of inbreeding, starting with the fall of Rome"

Want to rep this so bad.

[bcbm]

What happens when it's CE450,004?

nobody will be around to care.

[Robocommie]

Back then, wouldn't they have said nineteen hundred and fourteen?

Sure, but not so much now, which is of most concern I think.



But there are fewer syllables in twenty ten, and to me, thousands without hundreds sound lonely. What happens when it's CE450,004?

I'll just be thrilled if humanity can survive to CE 450,004 with an intact historical narrative. ;)

[Robocommie]

nobody will be around to care.

Why do you hate crab people?

[Angry Young Man]

I'll just be thrilled if humanity can survive to CE 450,004 with an intact historical narrative. ;)

No, you'll be dead.

But the revolution will happen this century, and so humanity might just survive until the sun expands, and when it does happen, we can probably skip to another galaxy. Of course in CE 450,004, people will list it as 448015 Anno Domini de Rock and Roll and years will start on 20/4.

[Robocommie]

No, you'll be dead.

Bullshit. You ever seen Highlander?

I'm like that but with more James Brown.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

The year of our lord two thousand and ten

the decade comprised of the years 2001 to 2010 will be called the CCI decade

all other nomenclatures are counter revolutionary

[Bright Banana Beard]

I call it two oh 10

[Sasha]

twee duizend en tien
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twee duizend tien

twintig tien is giberish in dutch

no idea when we will start dropping the 20 part again... probilly not for the coming decades

[Small Geezer]

I say two thousand and ten.

[Sendo]

hm.

1901 is called "nineteen oh one". But 2001: A Space Odyssey was called "two thousand one" and not "twenty oh one". Likewise, when 2001 actually came to pass, people said "two thousand one". (Funny how everyone called 2000 "the year two thousand")

BUT!

Whenever I heard or saw "2020", it was as "twenty twenty". And in 2110 we will not say "two thousand one hundred and ten". Therefore, I say revert to the ##_## labeling. It's the natural way to speak non-quantitative numbers: Bus 142 (one fourty-two) or Apartment 1421 (fourteen twenty-one).

"Twenty ten" all the way.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

if it were not a quantitative number, I would agree with you
I don't say that my phone number is thirty eight million six hundred and twenty seven thousand, one hundred and fifty six

but years are quantitative numbers
it's the 2010th year since the holy conception of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ

[MarxSchmarx]

The problem is that in English you have the "-teen" suffix that makes it idiosyncratic. I bet before the 1000s it was "nine-hundred and twenty two" instead of "nine twenty two" or such. In languages without the "-teen" suffix there seems to be little problem calling it two thousand and ten, because years like 1968 were "One thousand nine hundred and sixty eight" all along.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Just because in English the numbers ending in 13 to 19 end in "teen" and because most of you refer to every year in the XX century as "nineteen something", you should call the year 2010 "twenty ten"??
that makes no sense whatsoever I'm afraid

[Bilan]

What a crap argument. If you did the equation 1900+75 then the answer would be one thousand nine hundred and seventy-fine. If someone asked you what year the Vietnam War came to an end, though, you would say nineteen seventy-five. Because dates and mathematical equations are, you know, not the same thing. Either conceptually or in the way the end result is pronounced.

Yes, but nineteen seventy-five obviously flows together differently. It actually sounds nice as nineteen seventy five.
Twenty-ten sounds shit, and anyone saying it should be punched. It is, and always will be, two-thousand and ten.
You will also note that there aren't any years in the previous century that are pronounced "one thousand nine-hundred and x", for it is too long and dragged out. Two-thousand isn't. The twenty-first century will be pronounced like I imagine the eleventh would have been. "One-thousand and ten", "two thousand and ten".
In the twenty-second century, I imagine it will revert back to the other way of pronouncing.

[Angry Young Man]

(Funny how everyone called 2000 "the year two thousand")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRyaPO1tTSk

[MarxSchmarx]

Just because in English the numbers ending in 13 to 19 end in "teen" and because most of you refer to every year in the XX century as "nineteen something", you should call the year 2010 "twenty ten"??
that makes no sense whatsoever I'm afraid

Overall I agree, but in fairness in the ENglish language what comes after "nineteen"? Twenty. Just like what came after "eighteen".

[ls]

o 10

[Black Sheep]

Yet another extremely interesting thread. :bored:

[Sugar Hill Kevis]

But multiples of 1000 are never -hundreds in the way other multiples of 100 are. For example "being from Yarmouth, Scarlet ghoul thought that the world was forty hundred years old" wouldn't work as well as "Being from Norwich, Kevis' ancestors have a fifteen-hundred year tradition of inbreeding, starting with the fall of Rome"

My fam aren't from Norfolk, but still... touché

[Dr Mindbender]

In English, I think it's better to say twenty ten.

I don't think it should be pronounced two thousand ten, or any year in the 2010's should be pronounced like that.

We don't say 1910 as "one thousand nine hundred and ten". Yes, we did pronounce 2009 as "two thousand nine" but only because it is a new millenium. But that would apply only to the first decade.

I watched on TV how a few people were pronouncing it twenty ten and others were pronouncing it two thousand ten.

I am aware that other languages would say it in their own language as two thousand ten, but they would also pronounce 1999 as "one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine". Which would sound very odd in English.

the twattish pronunciation would be 'twenty hundred and ten'

[Angry Young Man]

I've already explained that multiples of 1000 are never called -hundreds in the way that other multiples of 100 between 1,100 and 9,999 are, dingus.

[gorillafuck]

I say Year Of The Octopus

[Sasha]

5770 offcourse...