How will you pronounce 2010?

[WillsBabe]

Just been watching an interesting article on the BBC, from their pronunciation unit, which prompts me to ask everyone:

Will you say twenty ten? Or two thousand and ten? Or two thousand ten?

I've spent the last decade saying two thousand and .... , so I expect that I will say two thousand and ten. But that might change as the year goes on. That seems more natural than twenty ten. But when I think about the London Olympics coming up in a couple of years, twenty twelve seems more natural, but that could be because that's how the "official" pronunciation has it.

 

[Amaris]

I will most likely modify my current "Two Thousand and Nine" to "Two Thousand Ten".


J.

 

[Snaploud]

twenty ten

It sounds more futuristic.

 

[Aragorn]

T minus 2 years to doomsday.

 

[ChaosAngel]

Twenty ten. I guess all the ads for the soccer world cup have drilled it into me. :-P

 

[RJDiogenes]

Either Two Thousand And Ten or Two Thousand Ten. The Two Thousand will gradually become Twenty through the teens and everything will be Twenty by Twenty Twenty.

 

[Trekker4747]

Anyone who puts an "and" betwem two sets of numbers (that is really one number) obviously missed a day of school.

I've long-since made the decision that in 2010 I'll start saying "twenty-x" for the year. It's time to get back on track and say the year like we've been saying it for centuries.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

My instinct will probably be to say two thousand ten, but I'm going to try and force myself to say twenty ten.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Anyone who puts an "and" betwem two sets of numbers (that is really one number) obviously missed a day of school.

As far as remember my teachers would say "five hundred and twenty" "one thousand, three hundred and two" and the 1961 movie was "One Hundred and One Dalmatians"

 

[Geckothan]

Two-thousand-and-ten is how I pronounce it. Every time I hear somebody say "twenty-ten" I feel like throwing a large, heavy object at their face. They usually put "carbon footprint", "credit crunch" or other buzzwords in the same sentence too.

 

[Sam_I_Am]

Anyone who puts an "and" betwem two sets of numbers (that is really one number) obviously missed a day of school.

I think the 'and' in numbers like that is the only way of saying numbers in the commonwealth (not sure about Canada). It always sounds pretty american when people leave it out.

 

[RoJoHen]

Anyone who puts an "and" betwem two sets of numbers (that is really one number) obviously missed a day of school.

As far as remember my teachers would say "five hundred and twenty" "one thousand, three hundred and two" and the 1961 movie was "One Hundred and One Dalmatians"

Yeah, there's nothing incorrect about using "and." I was certainly never taught that it was wrong.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

Two-thousand-and-ten is how I pronounce it. Every time I hear somebody say "twenty-ten" I feel like throwing a large, heavy object at their face. They usually put "carbon footprint", "credit crunch" or other buzzwords in the same sentence too.

Is that how you felt every time you heard someone say "Nineteen-ninety"?

Back in the year one-thousand, nine-hundred and ninety-nine, there was a lot of talk about what we'd end up calling the new decade/millenium. I was just relieved I wouldn't have to say so many syllables for a few years.

 

[Geckothan]

Two-thousand-and-ten is how I pronounce it. Every time I hear somebody say "twenty-ten" I feel like throwing a large, heavy object at their face. They usually put "carbon footprint", "credit crunch" or other buzzwords in the same sentence too.

Is that how you felt every time you heard someone say "Nineteen-ninety"?

Back in the year one-thousand, nine-hundred and ninety-nine, there was a lot of talk about what we'd end up calling the new decade/millenium. I was just relieved I wouldn't have to say so many syllables for a few years.

"One thousand, nine hundred and ninety" is a mouthful, "two thousand and ten" isn't really.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Twenty-ten. I called 2000 "two thousand," but I called 2001 "twenty-oh-one", 2002 "twenty-oh-two" and so on...

 

[Miss Chicken]

Anyone who puts an "and" betwem two sets of numbers (that is really one number) obviously missed a day of school.

I think the 'and' in numbers like that is the only way of saying numbers in the commonwealth (not sure about Canada). It always sounds pretty american when people leave it out.

I find "two thousand ten" difficult to say because I have to consciously stop myself from putting an 'and' in. "Two thousand and ten" comes naturally to me.

When I say 1901 I say "nineteen oh two" and yet I haver say "twenty oh two" for 2001 (two thousand and one).

Yet I had to say the sum 1901 + 9 out allowed I would say "one thousand and one plus nine"

 

[LaxScrutiny]

When I say 1901 I say "nineteen oh two" and yet I haver say "twenty oh two" for 2001 (two thousand and one).

When I say 1901 I say "nineteen oh one".

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Twenty ten.

Anyone who puts an "and" betwem two sets of numbers (that is really one number) obviously missed a day of school.

 

[Lord Garth]

Twenty Ten.

BUT

Sometimes, in a pinch, I'll say "Two Thousand Ten" because I got used to saying "Two Thousand..." for 10 years. In some instances I also use it when referring to multiple years. "I hope Two Thousand Ten is better than Two Thousand Nine" flows better as a sentence than "I hope Twenty Ten is better than Two Thousand Nine".

 

[Shazam!]

Anyone who puts an "and" betwem two sets of numbers (that is really one number) obviously missed a day of school.

So, 101 is a hundred one?

*massive belm*