A Sea Of Red

How will you pronounce the year 2010?

twenty ten

Likewise

two thousand ten

twenty ten or oh ten.

oh-ten for me, though ultimately the media will figure out what to call it and then eventually nearly everyone will go with that

2010. "Two-thousand-ten."

Though we've been referring to 2010 at work for 2 years now, calling it just "ten." As well as "eleven" and "twelve".

I simply cannot figure out the "Oh-anything". Did you call 1910 "Nine-Ten"?

Sly Fox wrote:I simply cannot figure out the "Oh-anything". Did you call 1910 "Nine-Ten"?

I wasn't alive back then, but I'm sure you can remember it fondly along with walking 10 miles to school in 3 feet of snow barefoot uphill both ways

ATrain wrote:

Sly Fox wrote:I simply cannot figure out the "Oh-anything". Did you call 1910 "Nine-Ten"?

I wasn't alive back then, but I'm sure you can remember it fondly along with walking 10 miles to school in 3 feet of snow barefoot uphill both ways

Sounds like my parents stories about going to school in Michigan... had to have been terrible

Ditto, Sly, don't get the 'o' 10.

If you're going with 0-10, then did you call this year 0-09? Doesn't make sense. I'll probably use 20-10.

adam42381 wrote:If you're going with 0-10, then did you call this year 0-09? Doesn't make sense. I'll probably use 20-10.

Most people have been referencing things as "oh-four oh-five oh-six" etc so that's where the "oh-ten" comes from.

For example, I was class of oh-four in high school, class of oh-eight in undergrad, and class of "____ ten" in grad school. I hate saying it, but it's very easy to accidentally say "oh-ten" in there just because of the constant "oh's." (And yes, she did say that.)

kel varson wrote:Ditto, Sly, don't get the 'o' 10.

I don't get it either. It's like Saying 9 O 17 pm because your normally say 9 O 7 pm. It just sounds dumb to me.

flamesbball84 wrote:

kel varson wrote:Ditto, Sly, don't get the 'o' 10.

I don't get it either. It's like Saying 9 O 17 pm because your normally say 9 O 7 pm. It just sounds dumb to me.

EXACTLY.

flamesbball84 wrote:

kel varson wrote:Ditto, Sly, don't get the 'o' 10.

I don't get it either. It's like Saying 9 O 17 pm because your normally say 9 O 7 pm. It just sounds dumb to me.

The obvious problem with your logic here is there is no 0 in front of the 17 and after the nine. There is a 0 between the 2 and the 10.

I'm going with 'twenty-ten'...and hoping the 'twenty' prefix keeps on going. Less clunky than saying 'two thousand' like we have been doing for the last 8 years.

ATrain wrote:

flamesbball84 wrote:

kel varson wrote:Ditto, Sly, don't get the 'o' 10.

I don't get it either. It's like Saying 9 O 17 pm because your normally say 9 O 7 pm. It just sounds dumb to me.

The obvious problem with your logic here is there is no 0 in front of the 17 and after the nine. There is a 0 between the 2 and the 10.

So was 1910 known as 9-10? It's the same logic and doesn't make since either.

oh 10 does sound stupid...i am going with the twenty-ten...much easier to say...it just flows better the 2 thousand-ten

Did any of you O10ers say nine ninety-nine for 1999 or did you say 1999 or 99?

"Twenty-ten" or "two thousand and ten" will both work for me. If someone gives me any of that "Oh ten" crap, they might get a throat punch. That's dumb.

About as dumb as people arguing that 2009 isn't the end of a decade.

El Scorcho wrote: they might get a throat punch.

What like this?

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El Scorcho wrote:"Twenty-ten" or "two thousand and ten" will both work for me. If someone gives me any of that "Oh ten" crap, they might get a throat punch. That's dumb.

About as dumb as people arguing that 2009 isn't the end of a decade.

It isn't if you live by the Gregorian calendar, which I think it's a pretty safe thing to assume.

I'll pronounce it - "The Year Obama destroyed our wonderful Country".

flamesbball84 wrote:

El Scorcho wrote:"Twenty-ten" or "two thousand and ten" will both work for me. If someone gives me any of that "Oh ten" crap, they might get a throat punch. That's dumb.

About as dumb as people arguing that 2009 isn't the end of a decade.

It isn't if you live by the Gregorian calendar, which I think it's a pretty safe thing to assume.

As I said in the other thread on here, that's pedantic. In modern times most (normal) people group decades from 0-9.

Besides, it was the end of A decade. A decade is just a ten year period and 2000-2009 qualifies as that. It may not be the end of a gregorian decade but so far as grouping events into decades goes, modern society hasn't been too keen on caring about those.