How will you pronounce 2010?

[Rincewiend]

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.

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.

Yeah, something like that for me too...
A gradual change from tweeduizend-tien to twintig-tien, twintig-elf etc...

 

[Rabittooth]

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.

But the point is, you made it sound as if the very idea of saying "twenty ten" is stupid, but it's what we were doing all along.
"Nineteen Ninety."
NOT "One thousand Nine hundred and Ninety".

-R

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I don't understand people wanting to be pedants about how you pronounce a year. If other people know what you mean when you say "two thousand and ten," who gives a fuck?

 

[Kirk's_Tights]

Twenty ten.

Two thousand and ten is far too many syllables.

 

[Maestro]

I believe that removing the word "and" from the recitation of large numbers was a movement in American education in the 1970s. I remember learning in gradeschool that you would say "two-thousand-ten" and then correcting my mother for saying "two-thousand-and-ten."

Today, with so many people saying "fli-um" instead of "film," "afaghan" instead of "afghan," and "of-ten" instead of "offen," I really don't care much whether or not Americans, or anyone else throughout the old Empire puts the and in or not.

As for the actual question at hand, "Twenty-Ten" for me. Just has the right ring to my ears.

 

[JonathonWally]

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

I cut a lot of days of high school. I had better things to do. Like go to the beach and work on my tan, or well, catch up on sleep.

Twenty Ten

 

[JiNX-01]

20-10.
but in a fit of wishful thinking, i voted "the year we make contact."

 

[trampledamage]

Twenty ten - it's what I've always called the movie.

 

[Miss Chicken]

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

Silly me - I even proof read my post and didn't notice my mistake. I will blame it on the heat and the fact that it was late at night.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

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

Silly me - I even proof read my post and didn't notice my mistake. I will blame it on the heat and the fact rhat it was laste at night.

As long as you weren't drunkle

 

[Alexander]

I've always thought it was supposed to be twenty-ten. That's how all the Seniors describe their class at my school, the class of twenty-ten, so it sort of just sticks with me that way.

 

[Daneel]

I'm gonna say two thousand ten. I've started the rest of the years in this past decade with "two thousand", so I figure, why stop now?

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.

 

[trampledamage]

I'm gonna say two thousand ten. I've started the rest of the years in this past decade with "two thousand", so I figure, why stop now?

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.

The only time I can think of that "and" would indicate a decimal point is if you're using money - five dollars and seven cents, but it's pretty clear what you mean if you say one hundred and three dollars and seven cents. In normal numbering I say "point" to show the decimal point (but I was raised in Britain, and we do things differently there )

 

[Miss Chicken]

I'm gonna say two thousand ten. I've started the rest of the years in this past decade with "two thousand", so I figure, why stop now?

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.

Not sure about the USA but we have no trouble here recognising that "a thousand and two" (1002) and "a thousand point two (1000.2) as different numbers.

 

[RoJoHen]

I'm gonna say two thousand ten. I've started the rest of the years in this past decade with "two thousand", so I figure, why stop now?

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.

The only time I can think of that "and" would indicate a decimal point is if you're using money - five dollars and seven cents, but it's pretty clear what you mean if you say one hundred and three dollars and seven cents. In normal numbering I say "point" to show the decimal point (but I was raised in Britain, and we do things differently there )

Other than money, the only time you'd use "and" to indicate a decimal is if you actually pronounce the fraction: "and one tenth" as opposed to "point one." But nobody talks like that.

 

[captcalhoun]

two thousand and ten.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Ten minutes past eight.

 

[Daneel]

I'm gonna say two thousand ten. I've started the rest of the years in this past decade with "two thousand", so I figure, why stop now?

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.

The only time I can think of that "and" would indicate a decimal point is if you're using money - five dollars and seven cents, but it's pretty clear what you mean if you say one hundred and three dollars and seven cents. In normal numbering I say "point" to show the decimal point (but I was raised in Britain, and we do things differently there )

Other than money, the only time you'd use "and" to indicate a decimal is if you actually pronounce the fraction: "and one tenth" as opposed to "point one." But nobody talks like that.

Yeah... even if what I was taught is accurate, I have a feeling that it's probably just one of those technical things that nobody ever really pays attention to in real life.

Not sure about the USA but we have no trouble here recognising that "a thousand and two" (1002) and "a thousand point two (1000.2) as different numbers.

Oh, I don't either... if someone says "a thousand and two", I have no trouble realizing that they mean "1002". All I'm really saying is that, for whatever difference it makes, what I was taught caused me personally to stop putting "and" in whole numbers. Naturally, YMMV.

 

[Trekker4747]

On the "and" thing, here's where I come from on it.

A)I was taught not to use an and, that was drilled into me in school.

Secondly, I would argue you don't say "22" by saying "Twenty and two."

So why would 101 be "one-hundred and one?"

 

[Finn]

Two thousand years and a decade after the birth of Jesus Christ who died for all of our sins and is now in Heaven.









Okay. Seriously, I'd just say twenty ten