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01 Jan 2009, 8:14 am

Well how will we pronounce the year when it comes? "two thousand (and) ten" or "twenty ten"?



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01 Jan 2009, 8:27 am

Both, just like now.



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01 Jan 2009, 9:28 am

Yeah.


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01 Jan 2009, 10:03 am

I don't know anyone who says "twenty oh eight" or "twenty oh nine" . everyone I know says "two thousand nine".

However, I personally will use "twenty ten", "twenty eleven", etc. when those years come up.



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01 Jan 2009, 10:55 am

I'd have to go with Twenty Ten.



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01 Jan 2009, 11:42 am

Two Thousand 10. why shorten it now?



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01 Jan 2009, 11:44 am

I would say twenty ten as well.



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01 Jan 2009, 11:55 am

Two thousand ten.

Maybe it's a cultural thing, but I've never heard anybody in my whole life saying 'twenty' something. Or nineteen something for that matter. (Eh, okay, the English speakers did... oh well.)


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01 Jan 2009, 12:00 pm

2 thousand and ten.


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01 Jan 2009, 12:10 pm

two thousand and ten. If it was just a regular number, you wouldn't say twenty ten would you? you count like this:one, two, three..two thousand and one, two thousand and two...
not twenty ah two.... :P


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01 Jan 2009, 12:23 pm

SeizeTheDay wrote:
two thousand and ten. If it was just a regular number, you wouldn't say twenty ten would you? you count like this:one, two, three..two thousand and one, two thousand and two...
not twenty ah two.... :P

By that logic, of course, you would have had Prince singing (or attempting to sing):

So tonight we're gonna party like it's one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine...


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01 Jan 2009, 2:40 pm

Two thousand and ten.


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01 Jan 2009, 4:43 pm

I'm going to be too busy watching the Leonov/Discovery rescue mission to be paying much attention...;)



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02 Jan 2009, 3:35 pm

DeaconBlues wrote:
SeizeTheDay wrote:
two thousand and ten. If it was just a regular number, you wouldn't say twenty ten would you? you count like this:one, two, three..two thousand and one, two thousand and two...
not twenty ah two.... :P

By that logic, of course, you would have had Prince singing (or attempting to sing):

So tonight we're gonna party like it's one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine...


and.... :P


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02 Jan 2009, 7:58 pm

Personally, I will say two thousand and ten. For some reason, twenty-ten sounds like an eyesight reading---20/10 vision.



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02 Jan 2009, 7:59 pm

I'm going to call it George.


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