Hmmm I don't recall ever referring to 2000 as being 20 - 00, or 2001 as 20 - 0 1, 2002 as 20 - 02 etc!!
2000 and 10 trips off the tongue just as easy as 20 10, so I think I'll stick with the more traditional 2000 and 11, 2000 and 12 and so on and so forth......
I suppose 'twenty twelve' has a better ring to it than 'twenty eleven' as both words begin with 'tw'. Or perhaps we've just got used to the sound of it as it's because it's always pronounced that way when talking about the upcoming Olympics in 2012.
Is it 'twenty eleven' or 'two thousand and eleven'?
Everyone seems to be saying 'twenty twelve' already so when do we stop saying 'two thousand and.....'?
I stopped at the beginning of 2010. Sometimes I find myself saying twenty-oh-nine etc as well. Just becomes habit, and its much easier and, I don't know, somehow cleaner.
Although the nineteen slipped off the tougue with ease I find twenty does not and used two thousand and 10 and will use two thousand and 11 .
Its each to their own really but there is nothing worng in using thousand as after all it is correct in the AD sense of it all ( well as far as we are told anyway ) .
There's always going to be more than one way to read a number. Can people only ever say "five hundred thousand" and not "half a million"? Did everyone call the R&B group 112 "one hundred and twelve", no, it was "one one two". Did people call the Detroit area code "three hundred and thirteen" when they saw 8 Mile? Have you heard of "In the year 2525" God that would have made for a terrible song.
We get it already, "twenty sets of ten makes two hundred". "You count centuries in hundreds." So? You didn't refer to the 1980s as "the eighties" or "nineteen-eighties". Do you say "The decade of one thousand nine hundred and eighty" or "The one thousand nine-hundred and eighties"?
We use/used what? Roman numerals, tally marks, binary, hex, octal. Of course They're credible and complete systems, but it is still mostly interpretation. If you understand it, I can't see how it matters. Let it go.
for me it is two thousand and ten, two thousand and eleven, two thousand and twelve......... Really hate it when people say twenty ten twenty twelve etc for me it just sounds daft. People didnt say Twenty Nine so why say twenty ten.
Because you are using the totals of the numbers as a reason not to say it that way. "Twenty ten" is not a figurative integer, so people use it. If it were, would that not make "thirty"? People already know this, so they did not say "twenty nine" as this would cause confusion. It would make more sense to say "twenty zero-nine" but that clearly did not catch on very well for the 21st century. That's my understanding with a little read from Wiki too.
I've already started with the twenty eleven. I mixed it up a bit during 2010, but I'm a bit sick of saying 'two thousand and....', its a gobful and is starting to sound a bit weird since I had it pointed out to me that we don't refer to 1910 as one thousand, nine hundred and ten.
But we didn't refer to the millennium as "Twenty Oh Oh", or indeed 2001 as "Twenty Oh One" and so on, so there has been a convention for saying "two thousand" for the last few years.
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Personally I am happy to use either for this century.
For more informal stuff like arranging an appointment or telling someone the date I say 'Twenty ten / twenty eleven'.
2000 and 10 trips off the tongue just as easy as 20 10, so I think I'll stick with the more traditional 2000 and 11, 2000 and 12 and so on and so forth......
I just think it sounds nicer
I said 'twenty ten' with this year but 'twenty eleven' just doesn't sound right.
I stopped at the beginning of 2010. Sometimes I find myself saying twenty-oh-nine etc as well. Just becomes habit, and its much easier and, I don't know, somehow cleaner.
Twenty eleven doesn't sound right to me.
Its each to their own really but there is nothing worng in using thousand as after all it is correct in the AD sense of it all ( well as far as we are told anyway ) .
I don't think so. It sounds like someone trying to be 'cool' when they really aren't.
Just as I pronounced 2010 as 'twenty-ten.'
We get it already, "twenty sets of ten makes two hundred". "You count centuries in hundreds." So? You didn't refer to the 1980s as "the eighties" or "nineteen-eighties". Do you say "The decade of one thousand nine hundred and eighty" or "The one thousand nine-hundred and eighties"?
We use/used what? Roman numerals, tally marks, binary, hex, octal. Of course They're credible and complete systems, but it is still mostly interpretation. If you understand it, I can't see how it matters. Let it go.
Because you are using the totals of the numbers as a reason not to say it that way. "Twenty ten" is not a figurative integer, so people use it. If it were, would that not make "thirty"? People already know this, so they did not say "twenty nine" as this would cause confusion. It would make more sense to say "twenty zero-nine" but that clearly did not catch on very well for the 21st century. That's my understanding with a little read from Wiki too.
It's both or either and it matters not which you use.
I will use whichever comes into my head first on each occasion but really, it doesn't matter and neither is right or wrong.
However, by the time we reach 2020, I'd imagine that everyone will say twenty twenty and from then on, it will probably stick.