Next year: Twenty Ten, or Two Thousand Ten?

[Northstar]

So people, there's a struggle for supremacy going on, and I just want it to be settled so I can say the name of the next 90 years or so without thinking about it.

Which one do you like? Which one do you hear? Which one do you find rising to your lips when you look at the number....


2010

 

[georgina]

For this year I'm saying two thousand nine, so next year will be two thousand ten.

 

[Carl]

They didn't call it twenty-ten - space odyssey.

 

[Northstar]

They didn't call it twenty-ten - space odyssey.

A point in favor of two thousand ten!

But just to stir the pot... remember that old song, "In the year TWENTY-FIVE TWENTY-FIVE" (2525)?

 

[Skywalker]

I'm going with Twenty-Ten.

After all, we say "Nineteen-Ten", not "One thousand nine hundred and ten". So, it flows better and the years are all said the same: 1810, 1910, 2010 (twenty-ten).

 

[KristinBelle]

Twenty-ten

 

[Becky2005]

I say two-thousand ten BUT I've heard it on the news, etc.. as Twenty oh-nine right now (20 - 09).

It makes sense to say twenty ten because I can guarantee you when it was 19xx - 1999 -- I never said Nineteen hundred ninety-nine or One thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine. We all used "Nineteen + whatever" so "Nineteen ninety-nine".

Therefore "Twenty ten" (2010) "Twenty eleven" (2011) "Twenty ninety-nine" (2099), makes perfect sense since that is exactly how it has been said every other century.

 

[Becky2005]

I'm going with Twenty-Ten.

After all, we say "Nineteen-Ten", not "One thousand nine hundred and ten". So, it flows better and the years are all said the same: 1810, 1910, 2010 (twenty-ten).

We were posting at the same time! That's exactly what I was thinking, although I automatically say "Two thousand ten" -- I just have a feeling I'm going to be one of those old people that young people go "oh she still refers to the year as two thousand and X -- she just can't get with the times."

 

[kaytieeldr]

It makes sense to say twenty ten because I can guarantee you when it was 19xx - 1999 -- I never said Nineteen hundred ninety-nine or One thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine. We all used "Nineteen + whatever" so "Nineteen ninety-nine

On the other hand, we said seventeen hundred, eighteen hundred, nineteen hundred - but not twenty hundred. Instead, that was the year two thousand (not to be confused with the start of the third millennium, aka two thousand one).

Therefore, next year is two thousand ten, the year after that is two thousand eleven...

 

[Narnian_Princess]

I like twenty-ten, but sometimes I do use two-thousand-ten.

Now, what bugs me is people saying "Oh-ten" for next years' cars. Say "2010," not "010".

 

[cat83]

Funny I was just having this conversation....my high school, middle school, and elementary school aged sisters are all saying "twenty ten"- that's the way it is being taught to them.

 

[DisneyGirl421]

Twenty-ten.

I'm graduating in May, and I don't say I am the class of Two-thousand and ten... I'm class of twenty-ten. Mostly everyone in my class agrees.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Both.

 

[C.Ann]

Two thousand ten..

 

[Imzadi]

I'm going with Twenty-Ten.

After all, we say "Nineteen-Ten", not "One thousand nine hundred and ten". So, it flows better and the years are all said the same: 1810, 1910, 2010 (twenty-ten).

 

[golfgal]

They didn't call it twenty-ten - space odyssey.

Good point

I say both Twenty-Ten and Two Thousand Ten

 

[Rora]

I like Two Thousand and Ten better but I'm sure I'll use both!