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Title: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: warhawk on January 06, 2010, 10:40:21 AM

hello fellow chrome domes:  just wondering... what R  U  calling the new year?  is it...."two-thousand-ten"  or "twenty-ten"?  i'll start:  i'm calling the new year:  "twenty-ten".  it just sounds better. O0

so... how 'bout U?  what R  U calling the new year?  "two-thousand-ten"? or "twenty-ten"?  or both?  what's your story? 

WARHAWK O0

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: BaldRob on January 06, 2010, 11:43:38 AM

I just saw a news piece on this yesterday... since the 1900s were always called Nineteen XX, the same should follow with the 2000s... Twenty Ten for me!!

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: schro on January 06, 2010, 11:47:20 AM

Busy.

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: ozzie on January 06, 2010, 12:56:47 PM

Have to go with twenty-ten at this point.  O0

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: FR8TRAIN on January 06, 2010, 01:00:04 PM

Twenty-Ten for me as well.

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: mangosink12572 on January 06, 2010, 01:03:39 PM

 I never said to anyone that I shaved my head for the first time in nineteen hundred ninety-nine   - - - - - it was nineteen ninety-nine    I will go with  -  TWENTY TEN

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: D.A.L.U.I. on January 06, 2010, 01:27:18 PM

I very rarely mention the year in daily speech.  My word processor sets the date on correspondence and the recipient can make that call.  It's just not an issue w/ me.  The numbers I'm really interested in for the coming year start with a $ by in large unless it's related to health issues.  And I want those $ numbers to be much larger than 2010 however your place the decimal point or you decide to say it. >:D

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: Mikekoz13 on January 06, 2010, 06:32:00 PM

I'm calling it "The Year I got My Fat Ass Back in Shape"......

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: Razor X on January 06, 2010, 06:33:24 PM

I think "twenty ten" sounds better but I don't hear many people calling it that.

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: OzPete on January 06, 2010, 08:02:09 PM

twenty ten  O0

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: wpruitt on January 06, 2010, 08:08:51 PM

Had not thought about it much.  Wrote a check today ... and per the cashier, I'm still in 2009 !

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: Jack on January 06, 2010, 08:35:58 PM

Twenty-ten. People will likely call it two-thousand ten for a while until we get out of the habit of 200x being two-thousand x. I imagine it began with "the year two-thousand" -- from there we went on to two-thousand one, two-thousand two, etc., and now we wonder whether it should be twenty-ten or two-thousand ten. I don't imagine twenty oh-one would have sounded too awkward, but we were in the two-thousand habit by the first year's end.

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: GASlick on January 06, 2010, 09:14:10 PM

I'm actually bouncing back and forth.  I've noticed sometimes I use "twenty-ten" and sometimes I use "two thousand ten".

It's my adult ADD at it's best!   ;D

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: buddha on January 07, 2010, 02:02:12 AM

The beginning of the end seems to fit.

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: geoguy on January 07, 2010, 02:14:05 AM

Well, I live in South Africa.  AND the world Cup Soccer is hosted here this year.  Mass media around this year has led this year to be labled twenty - ten.  I would think if someone here refered to 2010 as 2thousand&10,  others would laugh...    20 - 10 it is for me

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: Sgt. Pate on January 07, 2010, 01:26:44 PM

I'm calling it "gawd I hope it's better than 09"!   :*))

Seriously, I just picked up the name "twenty-ten" somehow... seems to work for me.  O:O

Title: Re: WHAT are U calling the new year?
Post by: FR8TRAIN on January 07, 2010, 01:41:48 PM

Quote from: Mikekoz13 on January 06, 2010, 06:32:00 PM

I'm calling it "The Year I got My Fat Ass Back in Shape"......

AMEN!