how do you pronounce 2016?

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"twenty sixteen" or "two thousand sixteen"? i hear both.

"Two thousand and sixteen" as is usual in casual UK speech.

I've been saying "twenty-[number]" since 2012. Everybody's going to say it like that in 2020, so I just decided to get a head start.

"twenty-fifth of december, in the year of our lord two-thousand and sixteen".

I say "Twenty-sixteen."

When it was the early 2000's, I would say "two thousand three," and "two thousand eight" or "two thousand AND eight."

But when it started to get to get to 2010 and beyond, it felt too labor-intensive to keep saying the thousand part.

We say "nineteen-ten" and "nineteen-sixteen" so now I'm saying "back in twenty-ten" and "twenty-sixteen's been a bad year."

wonder why it never caught on, saying 2004 as "twenty-oh-four", when 1904 and 1404 would have been said in a similar fashion?

i can't imagine it sounds that ridiculous, no?

after 2011 started saying 'twenty-x' so twenty sixteen for me.

Yeah that's odd -- we do say "nineteen-oh-four" yet nobody said "twenty-oh-four." That's weird.

I wonder though, back in the actual 1904, did people say "nineteen-hundred-and-four" rather than nineteen-oh-four?

Was the "oh-four" a more modern habit that crept in, in retrospective conversations about those years I wonder?

Have never been to Britain but I find it hard to believe that anyone in the English speaking world would say "two thousand and sixteen" for the year in any kind of "casual" speech. Its so laborious to say it that way that it wouldnt be "casual" speech.

I'm in Britain and I do hear "two thousand and sixteen" a lot, yep.

I agree it's laborious though.

"Twenty sixteen" (the way it has been since 2010).

In the 2000s, it was "two thousand and".

If I'm not thinking properly and I see a year from the 2000s, I'll read it as "twenty thousand and eight" or something like that.

Twenty sixteen.

if we said 2004 as "twenty-oh-four", how would we pronounce the year 2000? "twenty hundred"?

two thousand sixteen

I say "two thousand and sixteen".

As the years go on, I think I will likely retain the "two thousand" format until 2100 (twenty-one hundred) if I live that long.

I say 'twenty sixteen', because it's a little bit faster. I understand that the number '2000' is never pronounced as 'twenty hundred' whereas 1900, when not a year, can be pronounced as 'one thousand nine hundred', but I just like the way 'twenty sixteen' etc. sound.

In Dutch, I also say 'twintigzestien' for 2016 instead of 'tweeduizend zestien' which would be more correct. I think the Dutch frown upon this more, though. Sometimes I just do it to see the reactions.