2010

Just a few weeks away. What do you call it? Is it Two thousand and ten, or is it Twenty ten? Calling this year Twenty Nine, sounds a bit weird so I think most people have avoided it. Will 'we' changed to Twenty XX or will we stick with Two Thousand and XX?
Place your bets ladies and gentlemen.

Some will say twenty-ten+, but I'll guess that +two-thousand-ten will predominate.

Twenty ten seems to be the first choice around here.

I'm with 889, plus the article: two thousand and ten.

By the time we get to 2066 I imagine we'll all be saying twenty sixty six, just as we say ten sixty six. But I think I would say one thousand ten for 1010, not ten ten, and I think I'll say two thousand ten for next year.

I thought twenty ten would be more popular; With all these international sports events coming, football (soccer for some ;) WC in 2010, Olympics in London 2012, and Rio which recently clinched the hosting of 2016....

Dos mil diez we will say.

With all these international sports events coming

How do those explain that "twenty ten" would be more popular?

Hola shilgia! (check mail btw) maybe he means in graphics? it is "simpler" in graphics?
It is impressive we used to think 2010 would be a year of a "distant future" with robots, pills for food, and fast time travel...ha!

#7, it's easier and quicker to pronounce, with less syllables. It sounds more 'catchy', to me anyway.

My boss has started saying two zero one zero. I really do need to change jobs.

Would it help if he said two-o-one-o? ;)

Why two-thousand-ten?+ Because it's the natural sounding follow-on to +two-thousand-eight, two-thousand-nine.

But 10 years or so down the road, after a decade of twenty-elevens, twenty-twelves, twenty-whatsits+, then +twenty-ten won't sound odd at all.

#12 -- How would you pronounce the year 1010?

I'll be saying two thousand and ten just because I've got used to saying two thousand...?? in the last 9 years.

"How would you pronounce the year 1010?"

Double ten?

Seriously, to answer how I'd have pronounced 1010+ in 1009, I'd have to know how I'd been pronouncing 1009, 1008, etc., and I don't know (some of us aren't +that+ old). Perhaps it was simply +nought-nine, nought-eight, etc. Anyone know?

Take a look at this 2005 article in the Times of London. It's about "when will people stop saying "two thousand X" and start saying "twenty X"
Experts clash over millennium bugbear
Well into the 21st century it is still “two thousand and . . .” Will we ever be twentysomethings

889, I wasn't asking how some hypothetical you of 1009 would have pronounced 1010 -- it certainly wouldn't have involved noughts since it would have been written MX -- , I was asking how you today would pronounce it. So how would you pronounce 1010, say in the sentence "The Đại Việt era began in 1010 CE"?

From nutrax's link:

it seems that when naming years the world has become stubbornly determined to ignore a system that worked perfectly well for centuries

Has it really been centuries? Did people in 1789 say seventeen eighty nine or seventeen hundred and eighty-nine?

I've been looking at a number of contracts for 2013 and beyond, and almost everyone concerned is saying "two thousand and thirteen" etc almost all the time, although nobody looks askance at "twenty thirteen" which does pop up now and then.
However, it's easy to mis-hear, so people tend to stick to "two thousand and ..." when they especially want to be clear

"So how would you pronounce 1010, say in the sentence 'The Đại Việt era began in 1010 CE?"

Frankly, I'd be more concerned with how to pronounce Đại Việt.

Fine. What I was wondering was whether you would say ten ten or one thousand (and) ten for 1010.

I think the world is stubbornly determined to ignore notional "systems" and go with what feels right.

However, we often get dictated to by the broadcast media on these matters, so if influential newsreaders, DJs, chat-show and game-show presenters start saying "twenty ten", then experience suggests it will catch on

It all depends, doesn't it.

Hangin' out with the guys at the local bar and grill, I'd probably slum it and say ten-ten.

But appearing before C.J. Roberts & Co., I'd go formal with the year one-thousand-ten.

So now answer my question: how do you+ pronounce +Đại Việt?

I'd probably say Die Vyet. No idea how a Vietnamese would do it.

twenty - ten. Or, perhaps to be honest I will be saying "two thousand and ten" but eventually start saying "twenty". I'm a bit of a lemming, I will just follow the pack.

The comment amount sports events has me pondering it though. I tend to agree with that and I can't quite work out why...perhaps it sounds snappier? Not sure.

There is not an unusual number of sports events coming up, is there? The ones that orangutan mentions all happen on a regular basis.

I imagine, at least where I live, twenty-ten will catch on. It's easier to say and people tend to speak in a lazy manner around here.

Yes, Myanmarbound, you do need to find another job. Your boss is a dweeb.

Funnily enough, despite the Australian penchant for abbreviating just about everything, we still seem to be saying 'two thousand and ten'. I think we need a popular TV show to appear called 'Twenty Ten' or something like that, and it will all change in an instant.

In England, when the London Olympics are being discussed, they normally seem to be referred to as the twenty-twelve Olympics much more than as the two thousand and twelve olympics. So I'm guessing by 2012 we'll be saying it that way, although that's still not much of a useful guide for what we'll be saying in 2010 and 2011

Discussing our budgets for next year at work, we seem to have fallen into saying 'two thousand and ten' but the London Olympics are definitely 'twenty-twelve'. Like #29 says though, I don't know what will happen in 2011.

Spoken, it will be "twenty ten". The years 2001-2009 were an oddity, and the odd pattern that they imposed won't go past this year.

Incidentally, how do you say the name of the movie 2010?

I don't talk about it, but I read it as 2 thousand 10. I suppose I'll get into the "twenty ten" groove sooner or later, probably around March or so.

The years 2001-2009 were an oddity, and the odd pattern that they imposed won't go past this year.

It depends on how you view the pattern. If you see "1995, 1996, ..." as 19-95, 19-96, ..., then 2010, 2011 would continue that pattern by being twenty-ten, twenty-eleven. (As you suggest.)

However, if you see nineteen-ninety-five as short for nineteen hundred ninety-five, dropping the "hundred" because it makes it too long, then the logical conclusion is that we will be counting "two-ten, two-eleven, two-twelve, ..." (dropping the "thousand" for the same reason), and a full return to the old pattern will not happen until 2101.

This is the "Speaking in Tongues" branch, is it not?

Yet we have a succession of posters putting their faith in the vernacular developing according to some hazy predetermined logic rather than evolving in its usual haphazard fashion!

Listening to BBC Radio 4 this morning, I heard someone talk about tax levels in twenty fifteen and someone else talking about food production in two thousand and eighteen. The jury is clearly still out...

Interesrting topic:)
I prefer two thousand and ten

libbyh- My very aussie dad has abbreviated the past decade to two-oh-two, two-oh-three, etc.

I'm very curious to how he will pronounce 2010 and on.

my very Aussie self says two thousan'n'ten, as do my family