I intend to say twenty-ten
and not two thousand ten
or the even worse two thousand and ten.
Anyone else?
Yes, I do think about these things. Because, you know, I might be called upon to offer my opinion to the world or the blogosphere. It's kateish.
And I still think the last decade ought to be called the oughts.
30 December 2009
i'm just saying
10 comments:
DEFINITELY twenty-ten.
Just had this conversation last night with friends who feel two thousand ten is the way to go. Just can't do it.
I've been calling the last decade the "ohs" - goes with the way we pronounced the years and just seems to roll off the tongue.
Now for the life of me I can't think of how I have been referring to the 2000's. I must have been saying two thousand nine, etc. But I like twenty- ten.
We sure did not go around saying nineteen thousand ninety nine!
Hmm...not sure how I feel about that. Twenty-oh-nine, I DO NOT care for. Definitely prefer two-thousand-nine. And don't really have a reason. But maybe Twenty-ten (-eleven, -twelve, etc.) is OK. Maybe it's the "oh" in the middle that bothers me. Though it's what we say when shortening to two numbers. Hmm.... But I don't think we can keep saying two-thousand-whatever for a whole century.
Now, what really irritates me is saying, "oh-ten." I've been hearing it at work since October, when the new fiscal year started. We're so used to saying oh-seven, oh-eight, oh-nine...that some people haven't figured out it just plain TEN, not oh-ten. And now I'm hearing it on car commercials! "Check out the oh-ten models!" Ugh!
These are important things to ponder....
(Something changed in the comments, and I can no longer post using the "Name and URL" option. So, will have to use the Google account...which makes me appear as Allison, not Allison B. But it's still me.)
I am SO with you on the "oughts"....no idea how this coming year will roll off my lips... I just wish it were 1910. Of course, that wouldn't be so good for you in Russia...
Interesting about the "oh" comments. I haven't heard any of the oh-eight, oh-nine sayings, Maura, so wouldn't even have thought of the oh's. I've only heard, and said the entire number, two thousand nine.
Allison, I never heard twenty-oh-nine either. That's odd sounding to me. I SHUDDER to think people are saying oh-ten. What?? I guess it *could* be two-oh-ten. But that's ridiculous. I think it's laziness and stupidity. And we all know how I feel about stupidity.
Since we were nineteen ninety-nine just a few short years ago, it only makes sense to me that now we will be twenty whatever.
And it saves a syllable.
Oops, my comment looks stupid! I meant, no one went around saying it was the year one thousand nine hundred ninety nine.
I think that's what I meant anyway. Blame public schools in Chicago if I messed it up again.....
I am a (two thousand and ten) kind of girl.
I plan to write,
205+5 just to irritate people!!
Kate, you probably don't hear as much American-English-media as most of us, lol! I've heard "twenty-oh-nine," which seriously grates on my nerves. But mostly, the "oh-nine" is used in terms of fiscal year (written FY09, so abbreviated as 09 and pronounced oh-nine) and car models ('09/oh-nine). Oh-ten, people just haven't stopped to think about.
Now, another thing I want to know is when are they going to start printing the 20___ on the date line of checks? They used to always print 19___, so you just had to fill in 2 digits, until the late '90s. We're a full decade into this century, and still they haven't gone back to printing those first 2 digits.
Yes, me too! I'm so glad to be able do drop the whole 200(1-9)!
And another topic of discussion has been, is 2010 the second decade and I say yes.
On NPR yesterday someone asked a question about how to refer to the past decade and the "official" answer was "the oughts". So there you have it... if NPR says so, it must be true. ;-)
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