How do you say 2010?
 

So, how do you say 2010?

Twenty ten. I'm just glad we're done with that 2 thousand nine mouthful.

I find myself going back and forth either when I read it or when I say it. Although, Twenty-Ten is pretty easy to say.

Well, to be a pedant, it should be "two thousand ten" not "two thousand and ten" -- the 'and' denotes a decimal point. :right:

Not to Brits.

Twenty-ten

In higher education, years are the last half of one and the first half of the next. So, we say oh eight oh nine (08/09), for the year that started in 2008. When we started discussing this year as the last half of the academic and FA year, people would say oh nine oh ten (09/10). People had to train themselves to leave the 'oh' out.

But I say two thousand ten, for the year.

Nerd.

I voted twenty-ten because I believe in saving time.

My wife and I just had this argument this morning. We went onto the web for vindication and couldn't find a reputable source that vindicated either of us. Or to be more precise, we found equal numbers of sites to support both positions.

I say twenty ten -- possibly influenced by a song from my youth In the year 2525 -- sung as twenty-five twenty-five.

I'm gonna hafta pull rank on you folks.

The car business sets this trend. always has. and we say 'oh ten'.

that's why the Oh Ten cars come out in August.....just so we can take charge of this kind of thing.

Ha! So it's not just us.

Just like the whole Y2K scare, no one thought ahead of time how we will say 2010. Someone should have anticipated this shit. :p

(side note) on the plots on my grammy and gramps headstones, they had put the year gramps died and only put '19--' for grammy. She was like, yeah, that's a bit early for me. She died this year (oh heck, I mean last year) at 97, sharp as a tack as always. :)

That's the craziest thing I ever heard.

That means I was born in nine sixty seven

oh ten

010
2010

the 2 is just silent.

no one says i have a 10 altima. that sounds retarded. twothousandten is too long..... twentyten.....nuh uh. some old people say twenty oh ten.....but that's all fucked up...

you could say aught ten?

You ought not.

I have an nine-ninety-five Maxima

Twenty ten.
Two thousand and ten at a push.

Two thousand ten?! NEVAH!

'This year'.

Saves a lot of arguments.
One is becoming too old for arguments.:sniff:

In formal written number style, the "and" does denote a decimal point. I don't know how British English does it, but in American English it does. I bet I can find an authority. But my Gregg's reference manual is at work.

Edit: Okay, not covered in the Chicago Manual of Style. Monster, how do you write numbers out on your checks?

we say "point". Also, each number after the decimal point should be said individually. "point two three" not "point twenty-three"

but, in written numbers-- when you write your checks, it's "three hundred twenty-three dollars point 00/100s"?

Since I work with legal documents, we often write out dollar amounts; we always use "and," to signify the decimal

not on a british cheque. Then it's "nine pounds and ninety-six pence only"

When recording educational audio, math editors from all of the different textbook companies were always careful to make sure we read "one hundred fifty," never "one hundred and fifty."

Yes, most Americans do in my experience. It was one of the first thing Hebe's teacher corrected her -and me- on. I let him live that time...

but . . . that's the same thing. You are separating the units with an "and"

I don't pretend to understand British money, and I read something about decimilization? but just as we separate the dollars from the cents with the "and," you are separating the pounds and the pence.

Using digits for cents is improper procedure. One part lists the amount only with digits. The longhand version would say "zero hundreths". First for security. Writing the amount two different ways also makes ambiguity difficult.

We were also taught "one hundred fifty"; not "one hundred and fifty".

"Twenty ten" or "Two thousand ten" are both clear and concise. Whereas "two oh ten" is also clear, it is not standard. Would require someone to think. That's dangerous.

This thread is on report.

You're still drunk aren't you?

That only works with money though. because we're not separating it as units, so much as coin types. Pounds and pence. If it was anything else we'd say 'point' not 'and'. So, to say 3.23 meg, we'd say three point two three.

Only in money do we separate with an 'and' to distinguish between the pounds and the pence (or at an earlier stage in our currency the shillings and the pence).

In Brit we'd say one hundred and fifty, not one hundred fifty.


[eta] meant when we write money not when we say it.

fixed

To be sure, most people here would actually say "one hundred and fifty," just like they'd say "a whole 'nother issue" rather than "another whole issue." But formal writing and speech are different.

We also write it with the 'and'. That's just how numbers work in Brit:P

Actually we'd probably say 'a hundred and fifty' rather than one hundred and fifty.

uh hundret an fifty.

1 fitty

Dang, I was sure the proper way to say 2010 is two thousand ten. :D Didn't know there was more than one way. :eyebrow:

I got tired of writing hundred and thousand so I've been writing my checks;

Three Two Three 00/100, to use your example. They always get cashed. :cool:

Oh, and the year in 10, just 10.

tree fiddy.

I say, "two thousand ten"

It takes up more time. I have lots of time.

Can you write one out for me?

Yeah, we better check that it's not a regional thing, this willy nilly check cashing. I betcha a bank in Ohio wouldn't cash it. You have my home mail, right? ;)

I would not cash a check if someone wrote it that way. Not even for Bruce.:)

Probably the same teller for the last thirty years.huh?

20-10. Just like it's spelled.

(hey, didn't anybody tell you that you don't say "and" after the thousands part?)

Good to be through twenty-ought-nine, though.

Hard to believe that only ten years ago we were hoarding food and ammo in the basement waiting for the end of the world, isn't it?

I haven't gotten over it yet.

Certainly, I can write you all the examples you want.
$455.35 = Four Five Five 35/100, $1478.95 = One Four Seven Eight 95/100, need more? :p

As a matter of fact, I don't. :headshake

Teller? I don't cash 'em, I write & mail 'em, but nobody hasn't cashed any. ;)

Hmmph. I must speak with my publicist. :rolleyes:

I say "FuckitscoldandsnowyI'mstayingintoday". That's how I pronounce it. Yup.

yep. It's bastard well snowing again! Been snowing since yesterday. Bored with the pretty white fluffy stuff now. Just really inconvenient when I want to walk the dog.

gee, it's beautiful and sunshiny here! and the decimals are dancing with the ands!:flower:

NO SNOW HERE!
I demand my share of snow point snow.
Or snow and snow.
Just snowy snowy snow goddamnit!

Wish I could send you ours!

Nothing quite like living at the summit of a hill in Yorkshire to make you appreciate light breezes and a lack of ice.

As long as it stays within Aylesbury town boundaries:eek:

I'm excused snow; I've got a note from my doctor:sniff:

Carruthers

Is that.....The Doctor?

Can I change my answer? I just found myself, as I was typing in the date, saying in my head, "two thousand ten."

OMG! He lives in Wendover?!
Meh, he's never home anyway. I bet it's hell getting an appointment.

Nah, never any problem. He gets a locum in from Alpha Centauri.

The trouble is that the locum has eight hands and they're all cold.

Carruthers;)

Just thank your lucky stars it's not a Venusian locum!