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Welcome to twenty-ten or two-thousand ten

Posted on Saturday, January 2, 2010 in Pronunciation

How do we pronouce this new year?

This is how we pronounce years past:
  1899 eighteen ninety-nine
  1900 nineteen hundred
  1902 nineteen oh-two
  1910 nineteen ten
  1999 nineteen ninety-nine

Then it became more cumbersome:
  2000 two-thousand, not twenty hundred like nineteen hundred
  2002 two-thousand two, not twenty oh-two like nineteen oh-two

What pattern should we follow for 2010?
  twenty-ten, like nineteen-ten?
  two-thousand ten like two-thousand nine?

Some say twenty-ten and there is even a site promoting that but not everyone agrees.

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