Jan 2
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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