2010: Twenty ten versus two thousand ten – which one are you saying?

Posted by: | Posted on: January 2nd, 2010 | 13 Comments | Posted in: Facebook, Social media, YouTube

2010 The second of January 2010 – we are now two days into a new year but have you decided how to say it?

Well if you have turned on the news you might be aware that there is a debate going on across mainstream media and in fact the Internet.

In the US the National Association of Good Grammar (NAGG) has decided to step in and decree that (2010) should officially be pronounced ‘twenty ten,’ and all subsequent years should be pronounced as ‘twenty eleven,’ ‘twenty twelve,’ etc according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Over the last ten years or more we got into a habit of saying 2000 as ‘two thousand’ – yet it was not so long ago that we were and still comment on 1999 as ‘nineteen ninety nine’.

1999 was also the fifth album of the artist formally known as Prince, released in 1982 (would you say ‘nineteen eighty two’ or ‘one thousand nine hundred and eighty two’?). It might not have been so easy to pen catchy lyrics for ‘nineteen thousand and ninety nine’.

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There is even a website dedicated to supporting this change in our vocabulary and they also have a Facebook Group currently with 3,900 members and a Facebook Fan page with almost 27,000 fans.

I personally have found myself saying both ‘twenty ten’ and ‘two thousand and ten’. What about you?

Note: If you want a reminder of ‘1999’ by Prince and are looking for it on YouTube, you might find there are a number of videos without his soundtrack due to his record label’s ongoing debate about copyright where mom Stephanie Lenz has been battling about the fair use of a Prince song in a video of her son she posted on YouTube which has almost 950,000 hits. Thought there is a great reminder of some of his hits in this video from 2008 when Prince turned 50 years of age on the ITN news channel on YouTube.

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  • http://twitter.com/miltoncontact/status/7311542329 Chris Thomas

    RT @krishnade: 2010: Twenty ten versus two thousand ten – which one are you saying? http://bit.ly/6jyq2K

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  • http://twitter.com/gretchenglas/status/7312351377 Gretchen Glasscock

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  • http://twitter.com/j38kel/status/7312429282 Jim Kelly

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  • http://derryodonnell.com Derry O Donnell

    I’ll be saying twenty ten for expediency, it rolls off the tongue a lot quicker. We’ve always said eighteen, nineteen etc. calling 2000 ‘the year two thousand’ only came into being as it was clearer than saying twenty zero zero or twenty oh oh.
    And, apologies for being a pedant, but 1982 is one thousand nine hundred and eighty two (or nineteen hundred and eighty two)
    Happy New Year and I hope you have a great Twenty Ten :)

  • Krishna De

    Thanks Derry for your comments – exactly as my husband has been saying to me for days:)

    Thanks also for the correction to one thousand nine hundred and eighty two – I read and re read the post a few times and still missed my error.

    Have a great ‘two thousand and ten’ :)

  • http://twitter.com/leadnetdog/status/7319797755 Gerry Schroeder

    2010: Twenty ten versus two thousand ten – which one are you … http://tinyurl.com/y9v2uwh

  • Paul

    It is Twenty ten and will eventually be universally accepted. It will be great to get back to saying it the way we have my whole life before 2000.

  • http://twitter.com/monicali/status/7518578086 Monica Li, APR

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  • http://www.madeinhollywood.ie/blog/its-all-new-the-year-decade-ideas-and-optimism/ It’s all New: The year, decade, ideas and optimism. – Made In Hollywood Blog

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