Plan B Forum

It bugs me when I hear 'Twenty Ten'. It sounds lazy and the next step along the slippery path to complete text speak.

And no, I don't have anything better to complain about right now!

What about MMX?

'Other' dammit Grimmy!

I say "twenty..." like I used to say "nineteen...". Should I have been saying "one thousand nine hundred..."?

No, but if you were counting you would say seventeen hundred, eighteen hundred and nineteen hundred... you wouldn't say twenty hundred (I hope...)

But I always heard that the Battle of Hastings was in "ten sixty-six", so...

Yep, that century was fucked up too...

I do "Two Thousand" unless I am referring to budget issues or financial years, in which case it is "Twenty Ten - Eleven" or "Twenty Ten - Twenty Eleven",

I am looking forward to being able to use the phrase "Twenty Twenty - Twenty Twenty One".



Actually, forget that. I do not want to be working in "Two Thousand and Twenty" so I am NOT looking forward to saying that at all!

FY '10 (Eff why ten)

As Scooter points out, we only went to the long version with the year 2000. And in most cases we didn’t say nineteen ninety nine, we said ninety nine.

So twenty ten is still longhand and eventually it will be the year eleven.

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I didn't vote I don't like this poll...

Hmm, a tie in the polling. Until this is settled, I'm only saying "this year," "next year," "two years out," etc.

I'm surprised how many folks voted for Two thousand AND ten rather, than Two thousand ten.

I suppose that also means they would have said Two thousand AND one, two, three, etc.? Seems inefficient.

bigskygal wrote:I'm surprised how many folks voted for Two thousand AND ten rather, than Two thousand ten.

I suppose that also means they would have said Two thousand AND one, two, three, etc.? Seems inefficient.

It is and some grammarian somewhere will pull your tongue out with pliers...

Interesting maybe, but the French use “and one” after the first multiple of ten (once they reach twenty (vingt et un).

But after that it is dropped (vingt deux, vingt trios…)

I'm just glad all the preprinted stuff just has a space for 'Date:_________ ' and doesn't have '_______ 19__' that used to be such a pain, when you were writing forcasts into the next millennium.

bigskygal wrote:I'm surprised how many folks voted for Two thousand AND ten rather, than Two thousand ten.

I suppose that also means they would have said Two thousand AND one, two, three, etc.? Seems inefficient.

I put both options in as 'Two Thousand and Ten' is the same as 'Two Thousand Ten' but in proper (British) English.

I want to know what the 'other' pronounciation is?

I don't know I haven't said it yet

I seem to do both of the top 2.