So what do we call this decade then?

Svalbard

Seventies, eighties and nineties - no problem.
The noughties - meh, irritating, but it works (sort of)

So what are we calling this new decade?
(Yes, this is a new decade - with reference to the other thread saying it's not)

The tens? The teens? Sounds crap.

Any ideas?

Random

The Tomato's. Who gives the ****? Someone will say something that sounds retarded some day on TV and it will stick.

Borneo Fnctn

The Tens is alright.

MaybeLogic

I would have said Stephen,but it's been taken.

lugha

Svalbard wrote: »

Seventies, eighties and nineties - no problem.
The noughties - meh, irritating, but it works (sort of)

So what are we calling this new decade?
(Yes, this is a new decade - with reference to the other thread saying it's not)

The tens? The teens? Sounds crap.

Any ideas?

You need to lash on an adjective. Like roaring twenties, swinging sixties, etc,.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

I've heard twenteens being used a few times already. unfortunately.

stripysocks85

The teens? Thought it was pretty standard. . . You'd describe someone who is 13/14/15 etc as being in their 'teens', so why not the years?

Svalbard

Random wrote: »

The Tomato's. Who gives the ****? Someone will say something that sounds retarded some day on TV and it will stick.

Perhaps, thats where the noughties came from I think.

I seem to remember when the euro was introduced certain TV presenters and djs tried to get us calling them 'yo-yos'. Thank god that didn't stick.

Ickle Magoo

I've heard teenies being used a couple of times now.... :eek:

efb

The Onesies, topical

Svalbard

lugha wrote: »

You need to lash on an adjective. Like roaring twenties, swinging sixties, etc,.

Er......The unusually cold tens?

Not much else has happened to define this decade yet.

Funglegunk

The tens sounds fine to me. If someone says 'tennies' and it sticks, I will be disappointed in humanity.

MaybeLogic

The Tenners?

thetonynator

It needs two syllables - eighties, nineties etc.

Too early to add an adjective- you can't get nostalgic about something that hasn't happened yet!!!

Maye the tenties???!!!

GLaDOS

stripysocks85 wrote: »

The teens? Thought it was pretty standard. . . You'd describe someone who is 13/14/15 etc as being in their 'teens', so why not the years?

Because then we're ignoring 2010, 2011 and 2012

Beasty

I think we should call it Barry

stripysocks85

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Because then we're ignoring 2010, 2011 and 2012

'The years in between the noughties and the teens' can be used for 2010, 2011, 2012?

bogtotty

The Sunday Times had 'teenies' on every second page last weekend, god help us.

smiley girl

Svalbard wrote: »

Perhaps, thats where the noughties came from I think.

I seem to remember when the euro was introduced certain TV presenters and djs tried to get us calling them 'yo-yos'. Thank god that didn't stick.

It did! Unfortunately there are people out there who do call the euro 'yo-yo's':eek:

smiley girl

Beasty wrote: »

I think we should call it Barry

Why? Is your name Barry?!:D TBH I don't think it will take. It'll be something stupid like 'tenties' or 'teenies', but as another poster has already said, a dj or the like will call it something and that's how it will be named!

friendface

How about adapting some form of the numerical prefix for 10, dec-.

• decadecade
• the decedies

Er.. maybe not

Martinog

Has anyone noticed that the decade isn't over yet,and that 2010 is the last year of this decade, not 2009,which just ended. if a decade was over,we'd be counting 1999

GLaDOS

Martinog wrote: »

Has anyone noticed that the decade isn't over yet,and that 2010 is the last year of this decade, not 2009,which just ended. if a decade was over,we'd be counting 1999

0-9 is 10 numbers, 2000-2009 is a decade

Martinog

ScienceNerd wrote: »

0-9 is 10 numbers, 2000-2009 is a decade

do we start counting from zero in years?oops i was wrong

just realised that what i said would make it 11 years... :P guess I'm not a sciencenerd

edit for the third time. LOL I'm really confusing myself now,ok
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 = 10years
2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009 = 10 years

so for the next decade it will be

2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019

I just wrongly assumed it should start from 1 :P my bad

TheKells

The hair growth years.

Brian CivilEng

I'm calling this decade the tenthies. Anyone on this forum in their nineties want tieducate us on what they called the decade 100 years ago?

jd007

The teenie bopper years?

tolosenc

Martinog wrote: »

do we start counting from zero in years?oops i was wrong

just realised that what i said would make it 11 years... :P guess I'm not a sciencenerd

edit for the third time. LOL I'm really confusing myself now,ok
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 = 10years
2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009 = 10 years

so for the next decade it will be

2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019

I just wrongly assumed it should start from 1 :P my bad

You correctly assumed. The decade does indeed continue.

The Teens ftw.

redout

Svalbard wrote: »

Seventies, eighties and nineties - no problem.
The noughties - meh, irritating, but it works (sort of)

So what are we calling this new decade?
(Yes, this is a new decade - with reference to the other thread saying it's not)

The tens? The teens? Sounds crap.

Any ideas?

How about the "The Turn of the Century"

galwayrush

Bertie's fart...........
As in the residue from his time in power.:rolleyes:

ejmaztec

The Dickade.

imeddyhobbs

The Aught Decade

GLaDOS

What's wrong with the tens? It's accurate and you can say it without sounding like a douche

starbelgrade

From the naughties to the teenies?! Me sees a new Ryan Report emerging somewhere in the twenties.

applesock

"the tenners" sound about right

RonMexico

Jailbait:D

Seloth

I dont mind the naughties...infact I quite like it...but the teenies...god know...too Jared!!!


how about the "Two Tens"!

Bottle_of_Smoke

Maybe there's actually no need to generalise about a calender decade. I'm sure 1998/1999 was closer in zeitgeist terms to the noughties than 1990-1995

Seloth

Beasty wrote: »

I think we should call it Barry

That just echoed this running joke myself and a friend have:D

The twenteens!

anyway you can be a teenager at eleven in Irish, haon dérg, dó dérg etc

civis_liberalis

the one-zees?

Bottle_of_Smoke

Deleted User wrote: »

The twenteens!

anyway you can be a teenager at eleven in Irish, haon dérg, dó dérg etc

That's real useful in a discussion about what we say in the english language.