A Peeve

[rsc]

I've been in a tiny minority for the last decade or so, namely the folks who believe that the names of the years of this decade should be pronounced "twenty-oh-one", etc. But I've more or less become resigned to the fact that very few people agree with me.

But lately, I've been pretty consistently hearing people on radio and TV calling the upcoming year "two thousand ten", and even the year five years from now "two thousand fourteen". This is just wrong. It must be stopped. Now.

Comments

Tangentially...

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

What do you call the current decade?

-- thnidu
Fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties, nineties, and double-ohs folkie
Nineties and double-ohs filker

Re: Tangentially...

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I generally try to avoid calling it anything. I haven't solved that one.

Re: Tangentially...

[homorphus.livejournal.com]

This decade is definitively (to me, anyway) the "Naughties". Which naturally followed on the high heels of the Gay Nineties.

Re: Tangentially...

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, this decade has been rather less Naughty for me than its immediate predecessors...