When did you start saying twenty instead of two thousand for the year? Pretty much everyone said "two thousand" for 2000-2009, then some people started saying "twenty ten" for 2010. Now pretty much everyone says "twenty X" for the year.

Right from the year dot, I have always said two thousand for the year, even before this century started,

If I remember correctly I think I started referring to 2010 as "twenty ten" while I was also still saying "two thousand..." for some years (I know 2014 was one of them). I might have even occasionally said 2019 as "two thousand nineteen".

One thing I know for sure, the 2020's years I strictly say "twenty twenty-x". It will just feel too awkward to say "two thousand twenty-x".

The other thing that was certain, for the 2000-2009 years I was saying "two thousand x". It would also been awkward to say "twenty oh x" or "twenty AUGHT x" (who actually says "aught" this century? Lol), but occasionally I said the abbreviated version, for example "oh-five" for 2005.

Can there an option on the poll for before the year 2000?

The other thing that was certain, for the 2000-2009 years I was saying "two thousand x". It would also been awkward to say "twenty oh x" or "twenty AUGHT x" (who actually says "aught" this century? Lol), but occasionally I said the abbreviated version, for example "oh-five" for 2005.



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I never have.

I still say two thousand and twenty two and next year (if I am still alive) I will say two thousand and twenty three.

2010 I guess.........

I still say two thousand and twenty two and next year (if I am still alive) I will say two thousand and twenty three.


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There's a TV newscaster in my area who has always said "Twenty X" for every year after 2000.  He said 2004 as "twenty oh four", 2008 as "twenty oh eight", 2010 as "twenty ten", 2013 as "twenty thirteen", etc.

When I was a little kid, the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey came out.  Everyone around me seemed to call it "two thousand AND one" at that time.  Arthur C Clarke himself called it that:

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That's how I kept saying the name of the film, book and year all throughout my childhood, adolescence and early adulthood.  At some point (I'm not exactly sure when ) I started saying "two thousand one" for the year.  I think, if you caught me half-asleep or in a distracted moment, I might still slip and call the movie "Two Thousand AND One, A Space Odyssey".

When Clarke wrote the sequels, I called them "Two Thousand And Ten ..." and "Two Thousand Sixty-One ...".

I don't know how Stanley Kubrick named the year, but Keir Dullea calls the movie he was in, "Two Thousand One".



(who actually says "aught" this century? Lol)


Actually, in the previous century, some people would simply omit the "aught" and the "oh".  In the prelude to the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band version of "Mr Bojangles", you hear Uncle Charlie, who was born in the 1800s, pronounce 1906 as "Nineteen Six":

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You can't do that with this century because saying "I was born in Twenty Six" (2006) sounds like "Twenty-six" (26) and hence people might think you're referring to 2026 or 1926.


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Probably after 9/11?  What probably happened is that at some point I started developing a whole different set of associations with the number 2001 from those that had existed since my childhood.  Hence, the pronunciation was eligible for a "reset".

Incidentally, it took me a long time to stop reflexively thinking of the year 2001, or even the 1990s, as being "in the future".  "Two thousand AND one" still sounds futuristic to me.