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The way people say the year

  • 15-11-2013 10:33AM
    #1
    July Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭


    For the first 10 years of the 21st century everyone said two thousand and one, two thousand and two and so on but now everyone says Twenty ten, twenty eleven and so on. Why weren't people saying Twenty 0 three ten years ago ?


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  • #2
    duchalla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 329 ✭✭duchalla


    Probably coz the first year of the centuary was the year 2000, it would have sounded odd to call it twenty oh oh, it just went on from there....


  • #3
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Two thirteen


  • #4
    danniemcq
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    July Rain wrote: »
    For the first 10 years of the 21st century everyone said two thousand and one, two thousand and two and so on but now everyone says Twenty ten, twenty eleven and so on. Why weren't people saying Twenty 0 three ten years ago ?

    the flow of it doesn't sound right,

    there are less syllablesin "twenty o three" but the run of "two thousand and one" sounds more together.


  • #5
    July Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭July Rain


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Two thirteen

    That's what Michael Noonan always says


  • #6
    minotour
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    Banjo String wrote: »
    Two thirteen

    I notice Michael Noonan uses this format, it must be the norm in finance circles. I prefer the twenty fourteen format meself but each to their own.


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  • #7
    Sinfonia
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    Two hundred and one... three.


  • #8
    kneemos
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    This year.


  • #9
    biko
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    July Rain wrote: »
    Why weren't people saying Twenty 0 three ten years ago ?
    Were you? If not, why not?


  • #10
    Dravokivich
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    A bit late for this arguement by now innit?


  • #11
    danniemcq
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    A bit late for this arguement by now innit?

    by about eleventy years


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  • #12
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    An event happened in Nineteen thirteen
    It's repeated again in Twenty thirteen


  • #13
    stoneill
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    I haven't heard the like since nineteen and sixteen.


  • #14
    anncoates
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    July Rain wrote: »
    but now everyone says Twenty ten, twenty eleven and so on.

    It's a convention that arose from the need to shoehorn dates into the lyrics of catchy cod-futuristic ditties.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNM2K8cmU8


  • #15
    Joe prim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭Joe prim


    anncoates wrote: »
    It's a convention that arose from the need to shoehorn dates into the lyrics of catchy cod-futuristic ditties.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNM2K8cmU8

    Strange, I always liked Zager, but Evans left me cold.


  • #16
    FatherLen
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    I say two thousand and thirteen. but in a hundred years (I plan to still be alive) I will say twenty one thirteen, not two thousand one hundred and thirteen.


  • #17
    Timeless12
    Site Banned Posts: 51 ✭✭Timeless12


    So long as people refer to the 2000's as the zeros and the 2010's as the tens I don't mind.

    It really annoys me when I hear "the naughties" or the "the teensies".


  • #18
    July Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭July Rain


    Timeless12 wrote: »
    So long as people refer to the 2000's as the zeros and the 2010's as the tens I don't mind.

    It really annoys me when I hear "the naughties" or the "the teensies".

    what's wrong with naughties ? Nobody calls it the zeros !


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Twenty Thirteen is a lot catchier than Two Thousand and Thirteen.


  • #20
    LordSutch
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    July Rain wrote: »
    The way people say the year

    I'm probably very old fashioned, but I would say today's date is . . .

    Friday, the 15th of November, Two Thousand & Thirteen.
    ================================================

    I notice many radio/TV presenters now say the date like this . . .

    Friday November Fifteen, Twenty Thirteen. Then there are some Irish politicians who will even say Friday, November Fifteen, Two Thirteen :confused:


  • #21
    BalbrigganGirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭BalbrigganGirl


    The new trend in my workplace is May 1 as opposed to May 1st or the 1st of May.
    Drives me bonkers !


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  • #22
    Crooked Jack
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    July Rain wrote: »
    For the first 10 years of the 21st century everyone said two thousand and one, two thousand and two and so on but now everyone says Twenty ten, twenty eleven and so on. Why weren't people saying Twenty 0 three ten years ago ?

    Yeah but sure people used to say nineteen ninety nine four years before that, not one thousand nine hundred and ninety eight. It's just whichever trip off the tongue more easily.


  • #23
    PizzamanIRL
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    MMXIII


  • #24
    Rhys Essien
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Twenty Thirteen is a lot catchier than Two Thousand and Thirteen.

    Twenty thirteen is the correct way of saying it.If everyone here was born in Nineteen whenever and if we say that the famine began in Eighteen forty five and the previous one to that was Seventeen etc.

    Noonan with his two thirteen(213).Does he realise,that was a year,1800 years ago.:rolleyes:


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