[TDDance234]

How will you pronounce the year 2010?

[jcmanson]

twenty ten

[Sly Fox]

Likewise

[flamesbball84]

two thousand ten

[ToTheLeft]

twenty ten or oh ten.

[ATrain]

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

[JK37]

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".

[Sly Fox]

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

[ATrain]

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

[LUnpretty11]

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

[kel varson]

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

[adam42381]

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.

[SuperJon]

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.)

[flamesbball84]

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.

[adam42381]

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.

[ATrain]

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.

[WinthropEagleFan]

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.

[adam42381]

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.

[thepostman]

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

[flamesbball84]

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

[El Scorcho]

"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.

[jcmanson]

they might get a throat punch.

What like this?

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[flamesbball84]

"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.

[prototype]

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

[El Scorcho]

"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.