2010 - twenty ten or two thousand and ten

CamperMan

I hear plenty of people on the TV saying TWENTY TEN for 2010... it sounds stupid... what's wrong with TWO THOUSAND AND TEN

Nobody went round saying TWENTY ZERO NINE (2009), it was TWO THOUSAND AND NINE

Ebbs

Yes but everyone said Nineteen Ninety, Eighteen ten, etc etc

Get with the times

Schism

Twenty ten, it's easier on the ear and quicker to say.

Twenty ten

Jesus Wept

10 10 20

mikemac

two thousand and ten

On another note, will we be looking at one zero reg's next year? What will we use?

445279.ie

20 10

Ruu_Old

Schism wrote: »

Twenty ten, it's easier on the ear and quicker to say.

This.

gerry28

2 thousand and 10

I never really caught on to calling this decade the naughties.

What did the people of the 1900 to 1909 call that decade.

Is anyone's granny or granda old enough to ask??

Twenty ten all the way. It's 3 syllables compared to 5 for two thousand and ten. What did you call 1999? Did you call it "one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine"? No? Thought not.

Bob_Harris

Why do yanks remove the and?

Two Thousand Two
Two Thousand Eight
Two Thousand Ten

and so on.

Extremely annoying.

Riamfada

mikemac wrote: »

On another note, will we be looking at one zero reg's next year? What will we use?

Your eyes?

Holsten

Both.

6th

i say 2010.

Jet Black

Two hundred and ten.. According to my mam.

Riamfada

its "the year of our Lord two thousand and ten" you feckin' heathens

alternatively I will be mostly replacing ten with these words

Two Thousand and adrienne, anchormen, asean, ballpoint pen, broody hen, c. n. n., cactus wren, cattle pen, cnn, councilmen, fill again, fountain pen, gen., georgienne, guinea hen, handymen, hygienists, jenny wren, jungle hen, lpn, m. f. n., madeleine, maori hen, now and then, once again, only when, patrolmen, sdn, setting hen, tenn, then again, tienanmen, vannguyen, water hen, winter wren

Agricola

Twenty Ten

Lookin forward to using this. Feels abit like Skynet will attack man kind any day now!

!_Brian_!

Twenty Ten, sounds so futuristic!

Soby

or be one of those people who say TWO-O-ONE-ZERO

tech77

Deleted User wrote: »

Twenty ten all the way. It's 3 syllables compared to 5 for two thousand and ten. What did you call 1999? Did you call it "one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine"? No? Thought not.

I called it "one thousand nine hundred and ninety nine".
How very dare you.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Dunno, I still think "the year 2000" is futuristic.

G-Money

I'll say the one that the annoying people don't say. That's usually how I like to operate.

Overheal

Tonight we're gonna party like its One Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety Nine

Again.

Mike 1972

Grimes wrote: »

its "the year of our Lord two thousand and ten" you feckin' heathens

Leaving aside the fact that basing the calender around the sixth (and a quarter) birthday of a Palestinian asylum seeker is a bit odd Is the "our" bit not a tad presumptious ?

Overheal wrote: »

Tonight we're gonna party like its One Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety Nine
Again.

Doesnt have the same ring to it but what about "Tonight in a rare display of collective cop on were going to stay in with a few cans because all the places in town are taking the pi$$ with their cover charges ?"

Overheal

Bob_Harris wrote: »

Why do yanks remove the and?

Two Thousand Two
Two Thousand Eight
Two Thousand Ten

and so on.

Extremely annoying.

Because if I want to count why should I have to keep saying and? Its a waste of breath. And we need that breath, so we dont pass out from our enormous girth.

/honestly though I dont recall a Pat ever calling it Two Thousand and Six, Two Thousand and Five, etc.

Why, Four Score Seven years ago our fathers brought forth...

jumpguy

Twenty ten rolls off the tongue nicely, some nice alliteration and assonance going on there. In 1910 I'm sure the said "nineteen ten".

It's been overall a good decade lads.

Overheal

you have to call it Twenty and Ten though lest you offend somebody

citizen_p

CamperMan wrote: »

Nobody went round saying TWENTY ZERO NINE (2009), it was TWO THOUSAND AND NINE

because it dosnt role of the toungue....

you didint say 19 hundred and 99 you said nintheen nintey nine

jd007

Twenty Hundred and Ten

**Timbuk2**

[latex]2.010 \times 10^3[/latex] ftw

fiche deich

baalthor

Someone on IMDB claimed that it's only because of Stanley Kubrick that "two thousand and" became popular. Would be a bit sceptical of that but I think from next year most people will use twenty ten and so on.

o1s1n

As already mentioned, we only called it 'two thousand and' because it wasn't possible to do it the other way. twenty nine? Doesn't make sense.

Now that the sillyness is over, we can get back to doing it the proper way.

TWENTY TEN.

dlofnep

2 thousand and 10. If anyone says twenty-ten in front of me, they are getting a swift kick in the face.

o1s1n

dlofnep wrote: »

2 thousand and 10. If anyone says twenty-ten in front of me, they are getting a swift kick in the face.

Lucky for you, you probably won't be alive when people doing it your (wrong) way have to say 'two thousand, one hundred and twenty one'. And so on. The sane people will be saying twenty one twenty one.

dlofnep

o1s1n wrote: »

Lucky for you, you probably won't be alive when people doing it your (wrong) way have to say 'two thousand, one hundred and twenty one'. And so on. The sane people will be saying twenty one twenty one.

Nobody will say twenty-ten. Nobody. Not on dlofnep's watch.

DarkJager

"Meal for one"

o1s1n

dlofnep wrote: »

Nobody will say twenty-ten. Nobody. Not on dlofnep's watch.

You're just afraid to embrace the future. Come on man! Twenty Ten brings promise of hover cars and moon pie! :pac:

dlofnep

o1s1n wrote: »

You're just afraid to embrace the future. Come on man! Twenty Ten brings promise of hover cars and moon pie! :pac:

Nobody! :mad:

dlofnep has spoken.

Novella

I say 'two thousand and ten', but now I feel wrong!

We need a pole, to hang the numbers on or a poll to see which way is the most popular.

could a mod add one.

ejmaztec

MMX


m'kay?

CrazyRabbit

I just call it year 33.

My calendar starts the day I was born.

poisonated

I think twenty ten sounds better tbh

Sea Sharp

2k10
Twenty Ten for the win.

We don't want kids these days growing up thinking it was the "One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixteen Rising.

Lets get back to the proper system and say 2010.

Leprachaun

Two thousand and ten.

alexcorb1991

Its 2010 don't see how people think otherwise. We didn't go around 1 thousand 9 hundred and ninty nine, we said 19, 99

ejmaztec

It would be a lot more civilised were we to say "In the year of Our Lord, two thousand and ten". It would certainly piss off the politically correct "happy holidays" folk.

Leprachaun

alexcorb1991 wrote: »

Its 2010 don't see how people think otherwise. We didn't go around 1 thousand 9 hundred and ninty nine, we said 19, 99

Yeh but I've never heard anyone in ireland say twenty ten. It sounds really american. Two thousand and ten all the way.

karlog

Leprachaun wrote: »

Yeh but I've never heard anyone in ireland say twenty ten. It sounds really american. Two thousand and ten all the way.

Dude, nothing wrong with sounding American

baalthor

alexcorb1991 wrote: »

Its 2010 don't see how people think otherwise.

You have to type it in words - it's the same in numeral format either way:D