20-10 or two thousand ten?

[Charla]

How do you say it?
I'm guessing it will be 20-10, but I'm hoping for two thousand ten. Jasmine keeps saying "20-10" after 29 when she counts, so it would just confuse the daylights out of her for us to say that for the year :giggle:

So which way do you think it will end up?

[gonewiththewind]

I think it's gonna go 20-10 . . . hate to tell you that, Charla . . . that's what happening at my house anyway. LOL

[jacinda]

Two thousand ten at my house.

[donnawells]

I plan to say two thousand ten. And it really drives me crazy when people say two thousand and ten. There's NO "and" in there unless there's a decimal!

[wildblueeyez]

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:giggle:

I'm with you - Two thousand 10!!!

[donnawells]

LuANN! You little stinker....MY EYES, MY EYES! :giggle:

[ccouch]

Yep, yep - two thousand ten for us here :D

[judet]

I go between Twenty-Ten (because the Olympics are being called the Twenty-Twelve Olympics and get talked about a lot here -- I'm an hour from London) and Two Thousand and Ten cos I've been saying it that way for the last decade. Sorry Donna. But we wouldn't use 'and' for any sort of decimal either - not heard of that. I'd say 'point' to mean that the next numbers are decimals.

{Sorry, linguistics thread hijack again!}

[donnawells]

Well if you're talking US dollars it would be $20.10--Twenty dollars and ten cents. That's why the AND. But if it were $2010.00--it would be Two thousand ten dollars AND no cents. That's what I mean about the decimal. We wouldn't say Twenty dollars point ten cents.

[cherpea]

sorry Donna but I am gonna have to go with the whole Two Thousand AND ten... it annoys me the whole 20 10 thing and the two thousand ten thing just about does my head in...

might be a cultural thing though... we do have lots of words or ways of saying things that while acceptable in our own countries aren't other places...

[sinead]

Of course, there's always the four score and seven (http://americancivilwar.com/north/lincoln.html) point to be made...

I see where you are coming from, but it depends on where you put the emphasis: two thousand years plus ten more (two thousand and ten) or two thousand ten years. I think either way is technically grammatically correct by US grammatical standards (not that that's saying much).

For my part, I'll probably go with "twenty ten". We didn't say "nineteen hundred seventy" (or "and seventy"); we said 1970. Grammatical convention would suggest 20-10 (twenty ten).

/grammar nerd :whistle:

[cherpea]

yeah but we loves our grammar nerd!

[cherpea]

and yes I realise that is appalling language skills on my part...

[starwarsfans]

We've been debating this in our household as well. My thought is that the precedent should have been set as soon as we entered the 2000s. If we were going to call it 20-??, then it should have been 20-00, 20-01, 20-02, etc. But we didn't do that. For the last 9 years, it has been 2000, 2001, 2002, etc. So why change now?

[donnawells]

That's exactly what *I* was going to say. Thanks! :giggle:

[gavins mom]

I say 20-10 although I do believe it will confuse my kindergartners.
Someone actually corrected me at a store because I said 20-10.
But think back to say 1990.
Did you say one thousand nine hundred ninety?

[donnawells]

But think back to 2009...did you say twenty nine?

[ccouch]

I had this conversation with DH after reading this thread...just to see what he'd say. He's leaning toward 20-10, while I'm leaning toward two thousand ten.

When we look at 1910, I think most of us say "nineteen-ten," right? Not, nineteen hundred ten, or nineteen hundred and ten. I wonder if back in those days, people had the same awkwardness as we seem to be having with this.

Even though I'd say "nineteen-ten," I going to be saying "two thousand ten" for now. Perhaps once the years advance to a point where it becomes a total mouthful, I'll change. Seems like 20-23 would be much easier to say than two thousand twenty-three.

[lizzyfizzy]

2000-10 for me. the other ways confuse my tiny brain.

[gavins mom]

But think back to 2009...did you say twenty nine?
Nope!!!
I just said 09

[Charla]

Tricia, that's DH's take as well!
Unfortunately I think 20-10 every time I see/write it.
I'm glad I'm not the only conflicted one :giggle:

[emarina]

We've been debating this in our household as well. My thought is that the precedent should have been set as soon as we entered the 2000s. If we were going to call it 20-??, then it should have been 20-00, 20-01, 20-02, etc. But we didn't do that. For the last 9 years, it has been 2000, 2001, 2002, etc. So why change now?

My feelings exactly!

[robenmarie]

Oh, dear! I haven't even thought about this. MMMM?

[JaneAgain]

I don't know if I've ever said it, lol. Last year, I just kept saying "this year". The Olympics here is 20-10, and that's all over the radio, so that's what's in my head. And the CBC grammar boss apparently told everyone they are to say 20-10 on air...but all the 20-10 talk just makes me want to say two thousand ten.