The Media saying 'twenty fourteen' instead of 'two thousand and fourteen'
Noel Canard
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Anyone else irked by this recent phenomenon?
A couple of years ago, all TV and newsreaders used to say 'two thousand and twelve'; now all the rage seems to be 'twenty fourteen', bringing it to contemporary times.
It sounds so lazy.
For example, something that happened last year, they'd use the 'new, hipster' way of 'twenty thirteen' instead of the normal 'two thousand and thirteen'.
It might seem trivial but it really gets on many people's wick.
A couple of years ago, all TV and newsreaders used to say 'two thousand and twelve'; now all the rage seems to be 'twenty fourteen', bringing it to contemporary times.
It sounds so lazy.
For example, something that happened last year, they'd use the 'new, hipster' way of 'twenty thirteen' instead of the normal 'two thousand and thirteen'.
It might seem trivial but it really gets on many people's wick.
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As soon as the noughties were over it was inevitable. Two thousand and nine, twenty ten.
It makes more sense saying "two thousand and fourteen" because 2009 was "two thousand and nine", not "twenty nine" or "twenty o nine".
Although I'm not against all shortening. we used to just say '99 as ninety-nine, why can't we go for '14?
When did the first world war start? I rest my case.
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What *is* mildly interesting, though, is that pre-Millennium nobody ever said "2000" without prefixing it with "the year". After it actually happened, nobody does that anymore when they're talking about it. That's odd, isn't it? It doesn't make me particularly cross, though, so maybe it's not right for this thread.
It started in nineteen hundred and fourteen ;-)
One 2, one zero, one more one and a four= 2014
Courtesy of Consuela from Family Guy.
I still hear people say "Year 2000" actually, and I find that more odd.
Also completely disagree with OP. There is no reason to say it your way, it's just more of a mouthful. Nothing to be with being lazy. Personally I thought 2010 as a new decade felt like sensible point to change over. I also thought the old way would've died about after "Twenty Twelve", but it seems it hasn't. I expect it won't be until "Twenty Twenty" it will.
It seemed everyone was saying 'two thousand and one' for 2001, not 'twenty 0 one'...
Does it really matter?
* - It didn't start last year: it started as soon as 2009 ended. (My boss at the time called it "twenty ten".)
its not even recent either. who would ever say nineteen hundred and fifty four for example
And believe me, I've certainly noticed only in the last year how 'modern' the media is trying to sound.
Thankfully in the US, they're still saying 'two thousand and fourteen'
You've been listening to Steve Wright! I hate all his fake Americanisms. It's just so false
It all makes perfect sense.
The Kubrick movie should be "Twenty-o-one: A Space Odyssey" though.