How do you say '2011'?

[Deleted User] · 31/12/10 - 16:10

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.....'?

Eraserhead · 31/12/10 - 16:11

Twenty eleven.

[Deleted User] · 31/12/10 - 16:11

twenteleven

does that read correctly?

twentyleven.

Tom_Tit · 31/12/10 - 16:12

'two thousand and eleven'

2shy2007 · 31/12/10 - 16:12

I am saying 'two thousand and.... then again, I say'nineteen hundred and eleven, I'm quirky

4pounds64 · 31/12/10 - 16:13

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.

Pinkvelvet · 31/12/10 - 16:15

I say two thousand and eleven but twenty twelve

Si_Crewe · 31/12/10 - 16:15

I think it's simply because "twenty-eleven" sounds kinda clumsy.

Back in the 20th century, the word "nineteen" lent itself to being suffixed with other numbers more fluidly whereas "twenty" seems more clumsy.

For me it's still "two thousand and eleven" or "two thousand and twelve".

I'm sure I'll get used to saying "twenty-XX" eventually though.

[Deleted User] · 31/12/10 - 16:16

Tom_Tit wrote: »

'two thousand and eleven'

I agree

Twentyten/ twentyeleven/ twentytwelve just don't sound like proper numbers somehow

[Deleted User] · 31/12/10 - 16:16

the right way of saying it is 'twenty eleven', but I'm so used to saying 'two thousand and' something for about ten years that I'm just gonna say it's 'two thousand and eleven'.

sodavlac · 31/12/10 - 16:16

two thousaneleven

Actually, more "two fows'n'eleven"

cosmo · 31/12/10 - 16:18

2011.

[Deleted User] · 31/12/10 - 16:20

Me: 20 11
OH: 2000 and 11

Leewich · 31/12/10 - 16:21

Twenty eleven.

As has been said, 1911 wasn't known as 1,911.

I'm surprised you asked this this year though, this year has been twenty ten, not 2,010.

[Deleted User] · 31/12/10 - 16:21

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.

anirose26 · 31/12/10 - 16:22

sodavlac wrote: »

two thousaneleven

Actually, more "two fows'n'eleven"

Same here.:D

4pounds64 · 31/12/10 - 16:22

dele99 wrote: »

the right way of saying it is 'twenty eleven', but I'm so used to saying 'two thousand and' something for about ten years that I'm just gonna say it's 'two thousand and eleven'.

I think it'll start coming naturally to people as the numbers get longer to say - two thousand and nine sounds a lot more natural than two thousand and thirty three when we get to 2033. Plus you'll hear more people using in next year so that'll normalise it as well (imho

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[Deleted User] · 31/12/10 - 16:27

Two thousand and eleven. Twenty eleven doesn't make sense.

Billy_Value · 31/12/10 - 16:29

this year

ejm · 31/12/10 - 16:29

Pinkvelvet wrote: »

I say two thousand and eleven but twenty twelve

Same here.

Pisces Cloud · 31/12/10 - 16:31

Two thousand and eleven, because I think it rolls off the tongue better.

LudwigVonDrake · 31/12/10 - 16:31

RWD wrote: »

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.

Same here. When I hear it on radio/TV it just sounds like they're trying to be cool... when they're clearly not.

It kinda bugs me with "London Twenty Twelve" - they've managed to make it the brand, which is fair enough, but why not just say the "London Olympics" - I don't recall people saying they were looking forward to Beijing 2008 or Salt Lake City 2002.

And yes I know London has held two Olympics before 2012 but I doubt anyone would get them mixed up....

4pounds64 · 31/12/10 - 16:34

RWD wrote: »

People didnt say Twenty Nine so why say twenty ten.

Twenty nine isn't the right number

, twenty 'o' nine would have worked and stayed in fashion with 1809, 1909 etc, but I think the media made so much of 'the year two thousand' (say it in a game show voice over?) it became very normal to our ears and we just carried on.

Edit to add: Actually they do market sporting events with the year attached - for some reason Euro '96 seems forever etched in my brain

d0lphin · 31/12/10 - 16:37

Pinkvelvet wrote: »

I say two thousand and eleven but twenty twelve

Me too:)

[Deleted User] · 31/12/10 - 16:38

RWD wrote: »

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 the year twenty nine (29) already passed, like nearly 2000 years ago lol. It would make sense to say 'twenty ten' because that year hasn't actually gone, and it's actually a new way of saying a year instead of repeating the old one.

PeteA · 31/12/10 - 16:45

For most of the year I will still be saying 2010, until I get used to it being 2011, by which time it will be almost 2012.

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