It's "twenty ten", not "two thousand ten" stoopid!

[qubit]

The National Association of Good Grammar - essentially a guy named Tom Torriglia and some friends who also paid attention in English class - say people have been mispronouncing the year for 10 years.

"NAGG is here to put everybody back on the correct path," Torriglia said by phone from his home in San Francisco. "We lost the battle when we went from 1999 to 2000 - but now we're hoping to win the war."

The "20" should have been pronounced "twenty" all along, he said, pointing out that every year in the 20th century was pronounced "nineteen something."

" 'Twenty' follows 'nineteen.' 'Two thousand' does not follow 'nineteen.' It's logical."

I also think that "twenty ten" is better, because it's shortest and easier to understand and say, but I wouldn't get so extreme about it! lol

sfgate (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/MN621BB41U.DTL)

[FordGT90Concept]

Maybe "twenty hundred" didn't sound cool enough. "In the year two thousand..." sounds futuristic and awesome. :p

[DrPepper]

New millenium, new pronunciation. Personally I don't care about such petty stuff.

[DaMulta]

I'm going to call it 210

[DrPepper]

or two zero one zero.

[3991v]

Since I was so used to saying O'9 or something, i'll just call it "O'10" lol

[Solaris17]

i usually just say this year in conversation....unless its next year... or last year.....or unless i write it....then its 2010.....which doesnt have a pronunciation because i dont say it when i write.

[erocker]

I will say "The two thousand and thenth year of our Lord" until the day I die. Before the year 2000 we had it wrong. Tom Torriglia fears change. That's on him, not me.

[FordGT90Concept]

....then its 2010.....
When I read that, I said "two thousand ten" in my head. Torriglia won't be converting me and I think I know why. "Two-thousand ten" is easy and fast to pronounce (rolls off the tongue nice). It comes naturally. What do you say/think with 2110? I think "twenty-one ten," not "two thousand one hundred ten." It becomes pretty obvious why 20## is the exception and not the norm. The same applies to 1999 ("nineteen ninety-nine" compared to "one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine"). Torriglia has it all wrong. ;)

[Triprift]

Its two thousand and ten jees marees some ppl with there 20 10 rubbish bah.

[mlee49]

2k10 anyone? ;)

[Wile E]

The National Association of Good Grammar - essentially a guy named Tom Torriglia and some friends who also paid attention in English class - say people have been mispronouncing the year for 10 years.

"NAGG is here to put everybody back on the correct path," Torriglia said by phone from his home in San Francisco. "We lost the battle when we went from 1999 to 2000 - but now we're hoping to win the war."

The "20" should have been pronounced "twenty" all along, he said, pointing out that every year in the 20th century was pronounced "nineteen something."

" 'Twenty' follows 'nineteen.' 'Two thousand' does not follow 'nineteen.' It's logical."
He can go to hell. I'll call it whatever I want to call it. I'm going to call it 2 Thousand 10 from now on, just to piss him off.

[Triprift]

We didnt call 2000 20 double0 no its was two thousand Mr Torriglia bite me.