When you think or speak about the years from 2010 onward, how do you say them? I've noticed that when people mention future years of this century they tend to be fairly divided in the ways that they pronounce them: there are those who continue the tradition of saying "two-thousand-something" because it's what they've gotten used to in the past six years, and then there are those who realize (even if only semi-consciously) how economical and preferable it would be to simply say "twenty-something." Not only is saying "two-thousand-thirty-one" needlessly cumbersome when one could just say "twenty-thirty-one" instead, but it has this sort of flashy, futuristic quality that I think is so 1999-2000. But the year TWO-THOUSAND -- with its promise of futuristic space travel and robots and whatever else -- is past, we've got the reality, and I'd prefer if we just ditched pronouncing it that way for the rest of the century. I'll let it slide for this decade since it's already become conventional, but come 2010 I'm going to insist on saying it my way. ;)

What do you think will happen? Will we go through the whole century pronouncing the years either way we please, or will one way become the standard? And which one?

Twenty-ten for me.

I like Twenty-Ten better as well.

I say "twenty something".  I don't recall anyone calling 1906 as "nineteen hundred and six".  It was "nineteen oh six". 

Twenty-Ten.  Eighteen-hundreds, nineteen hundreds, twenty hundreds.

I say "twenty something".  I don't recall anyone calling 1906 as "nineteen hundred and six".  It was "nineteen oh six". 


Yea that's my reasoning as well, it should be said the way we always used to say it.