I've been thinking about how most people will say the years after 2009. We all know now, most people say two thousand five or what ever year it is. But when it hits 2010, It seems like twenty-ten would be the easier and more logical way to say 2010. I see the twenty-ten pronounciatiaion being used on newscasts as well, so it seems that will probably be the way people will say it. Which way will you use though? I actually use twenty-o-five sometimes as well, because it sounds kinda cool.

  what immediatly came to my mind was two-thousand ten, but twenty-ten makes sence too.

I'll probably call it two-thousand ten.

The tenseseses?  ;D

Twenty ten seems most practical. Then twenty eleven, twenty twelve, and so on and so forth.

As for the name of the decade, two thousand tens seems most appropriate. And then once we get far enough away from the 20th century(perhaps the 2030s) we will drop the two thousands and just go to calling them the thirties, fourties etc.

I'll say stuff the way I do now...it's twenty-o-five

Wow, RockandRollFan you really say twenty-o-five? I know not one person in real life who says it like that, everyone I know says two thousand five. Not saying its bad, just different.

And like Stuart on SNL used to say..

"And thats...okay"  ;)

I say twenty-o-five sometimes, but I usually use two thousand five. People look at you a little funny when you say twenty-o-five.

Wow, RockandRollFan you really say twenty-o-five? I know not one person in real life who says it like that, everyone I know says two thousand five. Not saying its bad, just different.

And like Stuart on SNL used to say..

"And thats...okay"  ;)
;D ;) Cool...actually my niece got me into saying it and she's really cool, so 8) Although I DID say two-thousand and not twenty-hundred :)

Two thousand and ten.

I don't think the format "twenty-twenty" will come in to place really until the year 2020. Until then its two thousand and ten, two thousand and eleven etc

I don't think the format "twenty-twenty" will come in to place really until the year 2020.


I just realised how dumb that sounded (saying it out loud)  ;D

The tenseseses?  ;D
lol, it sounds more catchy if you say them backwards, like 1020, 1120, 1220 - can get a little confusing though, time, date, year = 12:20, 12/12, 1220 ???

I was just going to call it the teens... ten/eleven/twelve aren't generally considered teen years, but I don't see why not really.

I'm gonna call it the twenties and so on. Just the tenseseseseses will work for 2010-2019.  ;D

I will probably call it two-thousand ten.

I was just going to call it the teens... ten/eleven/twelve aren't generally considered teen years, but I don't see why not really.


teen basically is ten, comes from the same word. and lots of people(not saying most) consider age 12 a teen year oddly enough.

How on Earth has no one come up with this yet :o


The 20 H U N D R E D S

teen basically is ten, comes from the same word. and lots of people(not saying most) consider age 12 a teen year oddly enough.


really 10-19= teens. Teen is how you say "tens" Why some people only consider 13-19 teen is because those numbers actually have teen in the word, but really they are wrong, teens are defined as the numbers 10-19.

Twenty-ten sounds good to me.