How will you pronounce 2010?

[trampledamage]

My original answer here was "twenty-ten" but every time I've said it so far this year I've said "two thousand and ten", mainly because I've only said it to my kids and for them two thousand and ten follows on from two thousand and nine.

Ask me again in December

 

[Nardpuncher]

My original answer here was "twenty-ten" but every time I've said it so far this year I've said "two thousand and ten", mainly because I've only said it to my kids and for them two thousand and ten follows on from two thousand and nine.

Ask me again in December

I know what you mean. I want to say 20-10 but keep putting the 'thousand' in there because I'm a teacher and my students are all under 10.

 

[The Borg Queen]

The wife answers telephone questions and the company she works for said that the year must be pronounced "two thousand and ten".

LOL "must"?

What a bunch of pricks. As long as the other person knows exactly what year she's referring to, it doesn't matter.

 

[trekkiedane]

The wife answers telephone questions and the company she works for said that the year must be pronounced "two thousand and ten".

LOL "must"?

What a bunch of pricks. As long as the other person knows exactly what year she's referring to, it doesn't matter.

^Indeed:

'Happy holidays' & 'Have a nice 'time of year''

 

[SVD]

What's with the sticking the "and" in there? Isnt the "and" suposed to represent the decimal point?

ex|
Two thousand and nine = 2000.9
Two thousand nine = 2009

edit: that's the way I learned numbers, anyway.

 

[trekkiedane]

What's with the sticking the "and" in there? Isnt the "and" suposed to represent the decimal point?

ex|
Two thousand and nine = 2000.9
Two thousand nine = 2009

edit: that's the way I learned numbers, anyway.

Two thousand and nine = 2009 (or 2000 + 9)

But then, I was a math student...

 

[SVD]

Two thousand and nine = 2009 (or 2000 + 9)

But then, I was a math student...

the mathematical semantics!

I learned to read/say that as two thousand plus nine.

What years did you go to grammar school, anyway?

 

[trekkiedane]

Two thousand and nine = 2009 (or 2000 + 9)

But then, I was a math student...

the mathematical semantics!

I learned to read/say that as two thousand plus nine.

What years did you go to grammar school, anyway?

It's probably cultural anyway, like the 'point' / 'comma' thing...

 

[The Borg Queen]

WTF? Shouldn't that be "Two thousand and point-nine" otherwise how the fuck are you ever supposed to tell it's a "point" anything?

 

[trekkiedane]

WTF? Shouldn't that be "Two thousand and point-nine" otherwise how the fuck are you ever supposed to tell it's a "point" anything?

In that case you don't need the 'and', Just the two thousand point nine.

 

[The Borg Queen]

WTF? Shouldn't that be "Two thousand and point-nine" otherwise how the fuck are you ever supposed to tell it's a "point" anything?

In that case you don't need the 'and', Just the two thousand point nine.

Exactly.

It's this kind of inconsistent language crap that leads to people mixing up metric and imperial units.

 

[trampledamage]

This has already been discussed - anyone educated outside of the US just smile and say "we put the 'and' between the thousands and the units, and use 'point' to indicate a decimal" and anyone educatied inside the US smile and say, "we were taught in school that the 'and' is for the decimal place'.

Never the twain shall meet

 

[Kitty Worrier]

This has already been discussed - anyone educated outside of the US just smile and say "we put the 'and' between the thousands and the units, and use 'point' to indicate a decimal" and anyone educatied inside the US smile and say, "we were taught in school that the 'and' is for the decimal place'.

Never the twain shall meet

American here. I don't recall what I was taught in school, but to me, saying one hundred and three is 103, not 100.3. I'd say the latter as one hundred point three. Because, it makes more sense for "and" to mean "plus" than a decimal point.

 

[trampledamage]

This has already been discussed - anyone educated outside of the US just smile and say "we put the 'and' between the thousands and the units, and use 'point' to indicate a decimal" and anyone educatied inside the US smile and say, "we were taught in school that the 'and' is for the decimal place'.

Never the twain shall meet

American here. I don't recall what I was taught in school, but to me, saying one hundred and three is 103, not 100.3. I'd say the latter as one hundred point three. Because, it makes more sense for "and" to mean "plus" than a decimal point.

We'll have to narrow it down by state!

 

[RoJoHen]

This has already been discussed - anyone educated outside of the US just smile and say "we put the 'and' between the thousands and the units, and use 'point' to indicate a decimal" and anyone educatied inside the US smile and say, "we were taught in school that the 'and' is for the decimal place'.

Never the twain shall meet

American here. I don't recall what I was taught in school, but to me, saying one hundred and three is 103, not 100.3. I'd say the latter as one hundred point three. Because, it makes more sense for "and" to mean "plus" than a decimal point.

Also an American, and I agree.

 

[Kitty Worrier]

It may be a regional thing.

Oh, on topic, I think I'll say two thousand ten. It may not be shorter than twenty-ten, but it sounds nicer to me, and it's what I'm now used to after a decade of saying 'two thousand xx'

eta: now that I think about it, I've always thought of "and" as "plus." I think I learned that in science class, though.

 

[SVD]

Just to finish this tangent (since I started it) with what I leaned vs. what I actually use:

learned to interpret the words "two thousand and ninety-two (hundreths may or may not be said)" as 2000.92

I would actually say/spell out that number "two thousand point nine two"

I never use "and" to mean my arithmetic "plus". I say "ninety-two plus five" to relay that the two numbers are to be added together. Using "and" in that context sounds weird and archaic in my mind.

I sense that this talk of mathematical semantics could be split from this topic if the Mods have this power.

final though: we are living in twenty ten

 

[Tom Riley]

American here, I was taught that the "and" was for the decimal place. Of course, at the time it confused me because up until that point I had always used the "and" in things like "one hundred and three". Nowadays, I say "point" when I am saying a decimal, and I just forgo any use of "and" in numbers. I never used "and" as addition either. I would say "plus".

250 -- Two hundred fifty

And this year shall be twenty-ten for me. I've waited ten long years to be able to go back to my original way of saying the year. I started saying "nineteen-whatever" in the beginning, and two thousand, two thousand one, two thousand two, up to two thousand nine were only there because "twenty oh nine" and the like just didn't sound right at all. But I've been referring to twenty ten and beyond as twenty ten since two thousand.

On a side note, the years x000 to x009 are the only ones I refer to as "blank thousand' to "blank thousand nine"... For example, 2409 is "twenty four oh nine" for me. It just sounds right while 'twenty oh nine" just doesn't... it's not about length for me, it's the usage. If it doesn't sound right... I don't say it like that.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Twenty ten. I think.

 

[WillsBabe]

I'm glad I made this thread. It's been massively informative, not necessarily about who pronounces what which way, but the passion with which the topic's been discussed.