Happy New Year!

Updated on January 4, 2010 By Ken Begg 9 Comments

I trust everyone had some great holidays.  Now it’s back to work.

2010.  Sounds like a science fiction year, doesn’t it?  (Also the first year, I think, where we start using ’20’ instead of ‘2000 and…’)

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  • Marsden

    The year we make contact.

  • Ericb

    It’ll be nice to be able to call a decade something that everyone can agree on. The “Teens” sounds much better than the “Os” or the” Aughts”.

  • Rock Baker

    Amen. I tried to make it sound less sissy by saying “twenty-oh-nine” or “twenty-oh-five” and such, but nobody would go along with me. Now that raises the question, did “twenty-oh” not sound sexy/new/flashy enough, or am I just harmlessly insane?

  • Blackadder

    IMO, people called the year 2000 “two thousand” because “twenty hundred” sounds really stupid. That set the precedent. People have been saying “two thousand X” for almost a decade now, so it’s probably an ingrained habit at this point.

    “Twenty one hundred” will probably be the accepted formula, but few if any of us will be around to see that.

  • Ericb

    It’ll probably finally switch to the “Twenty whatever” formula when we hit 2020. This decade both modes will be used depending on personal taste.

  • Food

    I want to use “twenty-ten” but still reflexively say “two thousand-ten.” Silly, I agree. Did we refer to 1999 as “one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine?” No! It was “nineteen ninety-nine.”

  • Ericb

    I wonder how the old Anglo-Saxons handled the 1000s?

  • Marsden

    The year 1000 was easy, everyone that could count said ‘M’.

  • Petoht

    I think I’ll follow the advise of the FakeAPStyleBook twitter feed: “The year 2010 is pronounced “11111011010,” but for less formal situations “MMX””