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

snowstorm445 · 19-02-2015 12:30am #1

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Pronouncing 2015 as "two thousand and fifteen" seems a bit out of date, and while it seems OK now, in about ten years time it will become quite a mouthful to say "two thousand and twenty five".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 · 19-02-2015 12:32am

Ought 15 dang nabbit

HeidiHeidi · 19-02-2015 12:33am

Two-fifteen, if you're Michael Noonan.

Desolation Of Smug · 19-02-2015 12:35am

XXXIV

PizzamanIRL · 19-02-2015 12:35am

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

Lia_lia · 19-02-2015 12:36am

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

donvito99 · 19-02-2015 12:37am

The year of our Lord, twenty-fifteen.

mad muffin · 19-02-2015 12:37am

I say.

The year of our Lord, twothousandandfifteen.

Old Perry · 19-02-2015 12:38am

zweitausendfünfzig heir freund.

foggy_lad · 19-02-2015 12:38am

The year of our lord twenty fifteen:pac:

KKkitty · 19-02-2015 12:40am

Old Perry wrote: »

zweitausendfünfzig heir freund.

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

whomitconcerns · 19-02-2015 12:41am

Old Perry wrote: »

zweitausendfünfzig heir freund.

That would be 2050 then :P

The Backwards Man · 19-02-2015 12:42am

Tha year haigh

Old Perry · 19-02-2015 12:44am

Mein deutsch es ist nicht so gut :-P

KKkitty · 19-02-2015 12:45am

whomitconcerns wrote: »

That would be 2050 then :P

Zweitausendundfunfzehn should be the right way.

Tonyandthewhale · 19-02-2015 12:46am

2015.

NachoBusiness · 19-02-2015 12:47am

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

CatLou · 19-02-2015 1:55am

#2k15 #yolo

thelad95 · 19-02-2015 2:02am

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 · 19-02-2015 2:03am

Now

WoollyRedHat · 19-02-2015 2:09am

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 · 19-02-2015 2:10am

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 · 19-02-2015 2:13am

fleet_admiral wrote: »

We are in the teens sounds worse:pac:

Well when you put it like that!

FloatingVoter · 19-02-2015 2:21am

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

Omackeral · 19-02-2015 2:35am

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 · 19-02-2015 2:37am

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 · 19-02-2015 2:38am

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.