Driving home from work today, I happened to glance at my inspection sticker and think, "Wow, the next one of those I get will say '10' for the year for renewal! How in the world is it already so close to 2010?!" And in my internal conversation, I pronounced that "two-thousand-ten." Which got me to thinkin'... 'cause that's what I do best...
Does anyone say "twenty-oh-eight" for the current year? I don't. I hear people say that sometimes, but it is a very rare occurrence, and it makes me think they're weird (SORRY! Geez. I ask you to confess and then tell you I think you're weird...). But the thing is, when talking about history, I never say "one-thousand-nine-hundred-and-eight." I don't even say "nineteen-hundred-and-eight." So why the hell do I feel the need to be all formal with this decade?? And I mean, seriously, I'm not the only one.
So I wondered, when it's the tens decade, will we finally start saying "twenty-ten?" Because when I think it, I think "two-thousand-ten."
What do you guys think? Should we get back to our 1900's habit and start calling it "twenty-whatever"?
It just sounds so WEIRD that way to me. Wonder if I'll ever get used to it...
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I've wondered about this too! I like "twenty-ten" but "twenty-oh-nine" feels odd for some reason. I remember back in '99 when the media were speculating about how we would refer to the decade 2000-2010. Normally we say the 80s or 90s. I heard it suggested that we refer to the decade as "the aughts," which sounds redonk but I still don't have a better suggestion.
I will probably say "two thousand ten" but then again, I'm weird....
Weirder, didn't everyone think the world would be like the Jetsons by 2010?
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