<p>I make a point of always saying “twenty-ten.” I don’t understand why anyone would say it the other way, even though the majority of people seem to. Nobody pronounced “1910” as “one thousand nine hundred ten” or even “nineteen hundred ten.” And people don’t say that William I conquered England in “one thousand sixty-six.”</p>
<p>And if you do say “two thousand ten,” do you plan to continue that formulation indefinitely, so that in 15 years you’ll be saying “two thousand twenty-five” instead of “twenty-twenty five”?</p>
<p>I blame it on the movie “2001 A Space Odyssey.” If people had pronounced the title as "twenty-oh-one, " etc., we’d all be much better off.</p>
<p>Perhaps not the most important issue in the world, but it greatly concerns me!</p>
<p>I say two thousand and ten. Never really thought about it before but perhaps because I got in that habit with two thousand and one, two thousand and two etc etc. </p>
<p>Agreed I did used to say nineteen ninety six etc. But Twenty one and twenty two would have just been odd.</p>
<p>hmm…my boss used to say twenty oh nine, and I found it odd sounding…but I do think twenty ten sounds much better. still it seems my default is two thousand ten…habit I guess</p>
<p>I think it’s awkward either way. On the other hand, twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, and twenty fourteen sound better in my mind. I can’t explain it - is it the extra syllables?</p>
<p>I work in a financial reporting job. For 9 years we’ve been referring to years as “oh-one”, “oh-two”…all the way to “oh-nine”. Its funny how many often we catch ourselves saying “oh-ten”!</p>
<p>I say two thousand ten. Probably because in 2000 nobody said twenty hundred, that would have been very strange, so now it’s just a habit. </p>
<p>Maybe way back when the last century was this young they said one thousand ten or whatever, but as it got to be older saying one thousand nine hundred and eighty two would have been much less convenient than saying nineteen eighty two. Maybe we’ll switch conventions later on when it becomes too lengthy to say the whole number.</p>
<p>I say two thousand ten, but I think that’s because for the first decade “twenty-oh-one” would have sounded wierd. Now that we’re into the double-digit years, I think it will gradually switch over to twenty-eleven, etc.</p>
<p>I say two thousand ten. I remember asking people this question in 1998 or so and they couldn’t come to a consensus. I have seen diplomas that say one thousand, nine hundred ninety-nine (1999) and assume that a lot of other documents do the same. As the years pass, we might just say ten, eleven, twelves, etc. as we do with dates from the 1900’s and of course the '49ers.</p>
<p>I live in the land of the 2010 Olympics so we’ve been hearing about twenty-ten for many many years now…it’s rather ingrained to sound normal at this point.</p>
<p>I say two-thousand ten and I can totally see myself saying two-thousand twenty-five. But two-thousand eleven sounds cumbersome. Maybe next year more people will start saying twenty-eleven and then it will stick.</p>
<p>I say two thousand ten, but it really is awkward. Twenty ten sounds much better. But what about twenty eleven? That’s not so good. Twenty is too much of a mouthful. Thirty is better. Really, nothing’s going to sound right until thirty ten because all of the O1-09 numbers sound weird. I’ll have been dead a long, long time by the time thirty ten rolls around.This is actually quite depressing.</p>
<p>Like most people I say two thousand ten but I think that will change starting with 2011. I think most people will revert to the old ways and say twenty-whatever.</p>