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

Menas · 19-02-2015 8:11pm

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

AgileMyth · 19-02-2015 8:14pm

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 · 19-02-2015 8:32pm

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Pronouncing 2015 as "two thousand and fifteen" seems a bit out of date, and while it seems OK now, in about ten years time it will become quite a mouthful to say "two thousand and twenty five".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