Hair-splitters thread: How do you pronounce the current year?

snowstorm445

Or every year since 2010, for that matter?

I would say twenty-fifteen for the current year, and would generally say twenty-(year) for every year since the start of the current decade.

Pronouncing 2015 as "two thousand and fifteen" seems a bit out of date, and while it seems OK now, in about ten years time it will become quite a mouthful to say "two thousand and twenty five".

In the last century, the years up until 1909 were pronounced nineteen O-x or nineteen hundred and-x, and those after it as just nineteen-x. Why is this century different?

And yes, this does deserve a thread!

toastedpickles

Ought 15 dang nabbit

HeidiHeidi

Two-fifteen, if you're Michael Noonan.

Desolation Of Smug

XXXIV

PizzamanIRL

If it irritates people how others pronounce the year, they have serious problems

Lia_lia

I would still say two thousand and fifteen. Probably because I'm so two thousand and fourteen :pac:

donvito99

The year of our Lord, twenty-fifteen.

mad muffin

I say.

The year of our Lord, twothousandandfifteen.

Old Perry

zweitausendfünfzig heir freund.

foggy_lad

The year of our lord twenty fifteen:pac:

KKkitty

Old Perry wrote: »

zweitausendfünfzig heir freund.

Sehr gut man. I pronounce it two thousand and fifteen.

whomitconcerns

Old Perry wrote: »

zweitausendfünfzig heir freund.

That would be 2050 then :P

The Backwards Man

Tha year haigh

Old Perry

Mein deutsch es ist nicht so gut :-P

KKkitty

whomitconcerns wrote: »

That would be 2050 then :P

Zweitausendundfunfzehn should be the right way.

Tonyandthewhale

2015.

NachoBusiness

I say: It's Two Ohh One Five, blood, best be keeping it real.

CatLou

#2k15 #yolo

thelad95

I remember back in 2010, it felt weird saying twenty-ten as for years we'd been saying two-thousand and eight, two-thousand and three etc. but now it's just instinctive to say twenty-fifteen. Saying two-thousand and fifteen seems long winded and unnecessary. It's a bit strange because in 2007 everyone said two-thousand and seven which has the same amount of syllables as two-thousand and fifteen which just sounds like a mouthful.

fleet_admiral

Now

WoollyRedHat

Twenty-Fifteen, a U.N resolution was passed on this and every country ( except Finland who just wanted to be different) agreed on this pronounication.

Now, what decade are we in?
The teens sounds about right, much better than that terrible sounding noughties, or naughties which makes it sound like a badly dubbed porn.

fleet_admiral

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Twenty-Fifteen, a U.N resolution was passed on this and every country ( except Finland who just wanted to be different) agreed on this pronounication.

Now, what decade are we in?
The teens sounds about right, much better than that terrible sounding noughties, or naughties which makes it sound like a badly dubbed porn.

We are in the teens sounds worse:pac:

WoollyRedHat

fleet_admiral wrote: »

We are in the teens sounds worse:pac:

Well when you put it like that!

FloatingVoter

Twenty Fifteen. Just like it was Nineteen Fifteen the last time I had a paying job. Blackadder was a crap boss.

Omackeral

Now, my story begins in 19-dickety-two. We had to say "dickety" cause that Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty". I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles…

FloatingVoter

Omackeral wrote: »

Now, my story begins in 19-dickety-two. We had to say "dickety" cause that Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty". I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles…

Abe, you little rascal.....you remember when we kicked Napoleon up the backside. And ran away.

Eugene Norman

snowstorm445 wrote: »

Or every year since 2010, for that matter?

I would say twenty-fifteen for the current year, and would generally say twenty-(year) for every year since the start of the current decade.

Pronouncing 2015 as "two thousand and fifteen" seems a bit out of date, and while it seems OK now, in about ten years time it will become quite a mouthful to say "two thousand and twenty five".

In the last century, the years up until 1909 were pronounced nineteen O-x or nineteen hundred and-x, and those after it as just nineteen-x. Why is this century different?

And yes, this does deserve a thread!

What you opine here is correct. Two thousand and X or Twenty X until 2009 thereafter Twenty X.

Inspector Dhar

IT'S 2015?????.....

Why did nobody wake me?

LordSutch

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Two-fifteen, if you're Michael Noonan.

You beat me to it . . .

Amazing that the minister for finance gets away with it too :cool:

Twenty fifteen usually , but sometimes two thousand and fifteen

TheBeardedLady

Dos mil quince.

Menas

Ah man, I wish I spoke another language so I could impress you all.

AgileMyth

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Ah man, I wish I spoke another language so I could impress you all.

If you say the year in French it sounds like van cans. Which reminds me of drinking cans in a van.

Probably the best thing about the French language.

The Diabolical Monocle

snowstorm445 wrote: »

Or every year since 2010, for that matter?

I would say twenty-fifteen for the current year, and would generally say twenty-(year) for every year since the start of the current decade.

Pronouncing 2015 as "two thousand and fifteen" seems a bit out of date, and while it seems OK now, in about ten years time it will become quite a mouthful to say "two thousand and twenty five".

In the last century, the years up until 1909 were pronounced nineteen O-x or nineteen hundred and-x, and those after it as just nineteen-x. Why is this century different?

And yes, this does deserve a thread!

How very dare you.

One should rather ask of splitting 'heirs'. Not "hairs".

Commoners.

Yes yes I said it.

You too Tilsbury if you're still stalking me.

catallus

Splitting Heirs is a 1993 Film which currently has an 8% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Sheepy99

4540000015

efb

15

Digital Solitude

Desolation Of Smug wrote: »

XXXIV

34?

I say Twenty Fifteen and Two Thousand Fifteen