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

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Which way would you prefer to say it?

Twenty ten. It sounds nostalgic like 1965, though it's in the present.

I voted Twenty-Ten. It's short and sweet.

Two-Thousand-Ten, for sure. Twenty-ten just sounds wrong and weird, IMO.

Twenty-Ten. Short and logical.

I voted "two-thousand-ten". It sounds more mathematically correct, as well as more sophisticated. "Twenty-ten" sounds like a number I used to think comes after twenty-nine (before I learned to count to 100, that is). Also, in most world languages, you name numbers by sets of three, such as ones, thousands, and millions, and so on. In American English, it's not the case, since you name numbers from 1000 to 9999 by sets of two, with some exceptions. Since the new millenium forces us to change how we pronounce the year, why not become like other languages of the world and say "two-thousand-ten", rather than trying to parallel how we named the years in the 1900's. (In Spanish, for instance, it would be "dos mil diez", not "veinte diez".)

Two thousand and ten. "Twenty-ten" sounds too American.

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I like the sound of twenty-ten, I already have been calling it that for a while now. Saying the other way just feels too long winded, like who wants to eventualy say something like "two-thousand-five-hundred-and-fithty-six", instead of "twenty-five-fithty-six", if I was being more formal maybe, but I would rather say the shorter version. Whio says it is too American, I am an Australian, I can not stand the american version of Aluminium, but this just feels more logical

It is a wonderful year topi

I will accept both. They look the same on paper.

Two thousand ten. Just like the book.

I go between the two. I haven't ever had a set way to say it. I have said twenty-ten more and more because when we were in the 20th century, did we all say "one thousand ninety thirty-four"?

In the years 1900-1909 I've always started "nineteen hundred" and after that it's just be "nineteen oh *insert year here*"

"Twenty-ten" - easier to say. "Two-thousand-ten" has the kind of sounds I tend to flub.

two thousand ten. I don't like how "2010" sounds.

I would say 0-10 as in o-10. I wouldnt bother mentioning the 20 bit.

I say Two-Thousand-Ten.

People said "nineteen fifty three".

They did not say "nineteen hundred and fifty three" or "one thousand nine hundred and fifty three"

Thus the new year is "twenty ten"

At least we have got through the first decade without too much discussion as to whether they should be called the naughts or the aughts.