"Twenty-ten" or "Two-Thousand Ten"?

[Gepard]

Lets not start that shit again.

2000 was the first year of the 21st century.

Absolutely everyone everywhere thinks so.

There was no year zero.

A century is 100 years.
A millenium is 1000 years.

1 + 1000 is 1001 plus another 1000 is 2001.

The twenty-first cenutry began on January 1, 2001.

Absolutely everyone who knows math knows so.

I swear to Zeus that I will carve out your heart with a spork if you start this argument again for the fortieth time.

a.) It may not have been 2000 years since the year 1, but it had been 1000 years since the year 1000, so therefore, it technically was a new millennium. And,

b.) If you do, can I watch?

 

[Nardpuncher]

I couldn't stand the "Millenium starts in 2001" people because it seemed more like they wanted to be one of those people that corrects people in order to look smart.
They say there was no year zero...but there was no year 1, 2, 3, 4 or a lot more as they didn't use our calendar at all then.
So just keep it simple as people were more excited about the 1 and all the nines turning to a 2 with all the zeroes anyway.

 

[Miss Chicken]

As I previous said I personally correct it because if we don't accept that 1/1/2001 is the first day of the 21st century than Australia didn't become a nation on the first day of the 20th century.

But the 1/1/1901 was chosen to be the day that Australia became a nation because it was the first day of a new century. There was no Australian nation on the last day of the 19th century (31 Dec 1900), there were only six colonies but the following day the six colonies united to became a country.

 

[TheBrew]

Twenty-Exty-Ten is my preference.

 

[Warped9]

Does anyone say twenty zero nine? There is your answer.

Why not twenty-oh-nine?

At any rate given enough time I'm sure folks will once again start referring to the years just by the last two digits as they did throughout most of the last century and probably the century before that. For someone in the mid 21st century a '49 Ford will probably mean something distinctly different than a 1949 Ford.

 

[John Picard]

Does anyone say twenty zero nine? There is your answer.

Why not twenty-oh-nine?

At any rate given enough time I'm sure folks will once again start referring to the years just by the last two digits as they did throughout most of the last century and probably the century before that. For someone in the mid 21st century a '49 Ford will probably meant something distinctly different than a 1949 Ford.

I do that right now. I refer to dates in the 20th Century that way unless it's 1901, 1902, etc. For today, I'll refer to something as, "That was back in '05".

 

[tomalak301]

Doesn't matter either way, but I'll probably refer to it as two-thousand ten.