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Message board > The way you say year 2010
The way you say year 2010
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marta v
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The way you say year 2010
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Here �s what two of my (British) English native-speaking friends /ex-professors say about this:
Good question, and one to which there isn �t really an answer yet. See the third paragraph of http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6973470.ece
It �s
been a problem for a decade already - 2000 was obviously "two thousand"
but thereafter some people (notably newsreaders) said e.g. "twenty
seven" while most of us stuck with "two thousand and seven", largely
because you have to make a deliberate pause with the first version to
avoid it sounding like "27".
I usually say 2 thousand and 10, But you hear future forecasts of "in
twenty twenty" I haven �t really heard of "twenty - nine" to refer to
last year. Saying "twenty oh nine doesn �t trip quite as easily off the
tongue as "two thousand and nine" as you �d have to stress all 3
syllables. Talking of last century, we would almost always say nineteen
oh nine, nineteen ten, not nineteen thousand and 10. I suspect from now
on we will move over to using twenty ten, twenty fifteen etc.
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6 Jan 2010
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pepelie
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twenty ten is being said mainly but it �s not wrong to say two thousand and ten either
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6 Jan 2010
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yanogator
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Aquarius is right, because, as a Mathematician, I can tell you that the word "and" doesn �t belong in a whole number. Although "two thousand and ten" is very common, it is not mathematically correct. It should be "two thousand ten".
Here in the US, most people said "two thousand nine" last year, and both "two thousand ten" and "twenty ten" are common this year.
Also, Marta, last century would be nineteen hundred, not nineteen thousand.
Bruce |
6 Jan 2010
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libertybelle
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My sister in California says everyone on the west coast says
two thousand and ten which she finds strange because no one said
nineteen hundred and eighty five - they said nineteen eighty five
so twenty ten should be the same and also easier to say.
L
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6 Jan 2010
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khaluf
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Two thousand and ten are better and correct |
16 Sep 2010
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