How will you pronounce 2010?

[Agent Richard07]

I've had "two thousand ten" in my head pretty much all my life. Now, I'm trying to get used to "twenty ten", but I'm also waiting to see what everyone else calls it. Maybe in the end, I'll just have to avoid saying the year.

[Edit] I have CNN on in the background and in the last 2 minutes, they used both.

 

[Agent Richard07]

There was a brief bit on CNN asking this question and according to their poll, 69% prefer "two thousand ten" and 29% prefer "twenty ten".

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

It was also mentioned that throwing in "and" is gramatically incorrect.

What I'll really have to get used to is not putting in two zeros when I write or type the year.

 

[Miss Chicken]

It was also mentioned that throwing in "and" is gramatically incorrect.

Did they say why they thought it was gramatically incorrect?

 

[Agent Richard07]

^ No, they just closed the segment by saying it was.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Duemiladieci.

This is my favourite.

It has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?

It translates "two thousand ten" for those wondering. In Italian there is no equivalent of "twenty-ten" (there was no equivalent of "nineteen-something", either: we spelled the whole thing out).

 

[Miss Chicken]

How do people here pronounce "250".

 

[Vendikarr]

I just asked my 15 year old son this question, and his reply is 2K10. He says that is how all the kids at school have mentioned it.

Me, I'm a twenty ten fan myself.

 

[apenpaap]

I will be pronouncing it as tweeduizendtien, or, when I'm speaking english, twothousand-ten.

 

[TheGodBen]

"Twenty-three", becoming "twenty-four" when the new year begins in mid February. One day you'll all use this numbering system after your brief stay at one of my many "relaxation and justice" camps.

But when talking to outsiders I will of course be saying "twenty-ten" because I've spent the last 10 years saying "two thousand and..." and I'm ready to shake things up.

 

[Snaploud]

I've thought about it some more, and I've decided to generally say "twenty ten" except when giving a full date ("March 12, two thousand ten").

 

[The Borg Queen]

How do people here pronounce "250".

Or 180. All those darts programs on TV have been teaching bad grammar...

 

[Ruaidhri]

Two thousand ten.

Haven't read the entire thread, but I had a chemistry teacher who told our class that using "and" when reading a number indicated a decimal point, and following that guideline would mean that "two thousand and ten" would be "two thousand and a tenth (of one)" = 2000.1

I've just always taken that as accurate and never questioned it, though I've never heard anyone else corroborate it.

 

[Miss Chicken]

For 2000.1 my science teachers would have said to say" two thousand point one". For the life of me I cannot understand how the words 'point' and 'and' mean the same thing. The word 'and' can mean 'plus' (as in 2 and 2 ), it can meean 'also' (I sang and danced to the music), it can mean 'then' (I brushed my teeth and went to bed) but I can't see how it can replace the word 'point'.

 

[RoJoHen]

How do people here pronounce "250".

Two-hundred'n'fifty

 

[M'Sharak]

I'm sure I'll be thinking "twenty-ten" soon enough, but at times when I'm having to verbalize the year, it's likely to be "two thousand ten" more often than not -- it's just clearer and less easily misunderstood.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Deux mille dix.

Duemiladieci.

You both suck

 

[iguana_tonante]

Deux mille dix.

Duemiladieci.

You both suck

You mean... voi siete entrambi troppo fichi!

 

[Alidar Jarok]

troppo fichi?

 

[Daneel]

As for the "and" thing, I kind of know where Trekker is coming from: I too was taught in school not to use "and" when saying a whole number -- I was told that using it would indicate a decimal point. I have no idea if that is commonly accepted (it wouldn't be the only incorrect information I was taught in school), but regardless, it did stop me from continuing to use "and" in numbers with three or more digits.

Haven't read the entire thread, but I had a chemistry teacher who told our class that using "and" when reading a number indicated a decimal point, and following that guideline would mean that "two thousand and ten" would be "two thousand and a tenth (of one)" = 2000.1

I've just always taken that as accurate and never questioned it, though I've never heard anyone else corroborate it.

Hey, what do you know -- I'm not the only one!

 

[Small White Car]

1850 - Eighteen Fifty
1234- Twelve Thirty-Four
2366 - Twenty-Three Sixty-Six
1977 - Nineteen Seventy-Seven
2010 - Twenty Ten?
- - - - -

So from the year 1010 to 9999 we've decided to pronounce the year as "two-digit number - two-digit number" (I'm counting sci-fi here.)

So in my mind, if we're gonna do it that way for almost 9,000 years, why is this century so special?

Saying "twenty-ten" matches the other 8,000 years...why are people arguing against that? What...the 21st century gets to be special? Why?