I just did a google search on news results for pronouncing 2010 twenty ten or two thousand and ten. There were 2,744 results and rising.
I don’t know whether a consensus has already been reached. I just listened to the radio news in the car on the way home and heard both versions in the same bulletin; one from a journalist, and another from a person being interviewed.
I think we’re confused. I personally lean towards twenty ten, but have been saying two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven for a while.
A decision will be reached, but confusion may reign for a while. What do you think?
We hope to have the ability to do polls on Red Alert in 2010 (however it’s pronounced). For now you’ll have to vote through your comments.
Happy New Year to you all.
Update: Radio NZ, the BBC and a bunch of other media have decided on twenty ten.
Happy New Year Clare!!!! I say 2000 and ten. I’m more confused as to what to call the decade we had the 90s and then confusion came up in 2000…
Hi Clare, it’s an interesting conundrum, I remember my late mum’s history being stated as being born in nineteen hundred and six [1906], and WW1 being stated as from nineteen fourteen/nineteen eighteen. I think the next decade should start as twenty-ten [2010], it’s much easier to say, at least!
I’d cut out the 10 and just call it “20″.
Just out of curiosity, why?
m, oderation? grrr methinks this is a BAD way to bring in 2000 and 10 !
Let’s not forget that two-thousand-and-ten is out for most Americans – they’ll be taking the third door of two-thousand-ten.
Put me down for twenty ten =)
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twenty ten for me – happy new decade all.
Election next year
Everywhere I go, the years have been pronounced as “2000 and 7, 2000 and 8, 2000 and 9″ etc. But I have heard news reports talking about future years as “twenty twelve, twenty fifteen” etc.
We could have another debate about whether the `new decade’ has actually begun yet, just as many did regarding the start date of the new millenium. But of course a decade can be said to be any period of 10 years, even if you start counting from 2014!
@Graeme – I quite like 2000 10 – Yay Americans
It seems Radio New Zealand has decided on twenty-ten
It’s only the first decade that’s a problem. Go back to last century. It was 1910 (nineteen ten) 1920 (nineteen twenty) etc. That makes it 2010 (twenty ten).
No arguement
oopps – should be argument. I join the call for an edit facility!
Yeah but we called 2009 “two thousand and nine” even though we called 1909 “nineteen-oh-nine”, so I think it’s up in the air still
It was Nineteen oh six and Nineteen eighties. We didn’t say Twenty Hundred because of the triple zero thing, and we didn’t go back to twenty oh one.
It’s time to go to Twenty Ten.
It’s going to be pistols at dawn at this rate.
T.G.E. is right. It’s twenty-ten!!!
I am for 20-10. There is a precedent: we tend to say that the Battle of Hastings occurred in 10-66, not 1000 and 66.
@m, illsy – Happy New Year!
I’m glad you reminded me, one more year. Yours is the only post I like on this thread.
I have always just called it two thousand and ten, for the purposes of consistancy. We have always called the last decade two thousand and one, two thousand and two, two thousand and three etc., not twenty one, twenty two, twenty three etc. so I see little reason to change it now to the above twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty twelve, twenty thirteen etc. system that some have began using.
Further, I believe that there will be no official convention for this purpose. I think that we will have some people using the current two thousand and one, two thousand and two, two thousand and three etc. system and others using the twenty ten, twenty eleven, twenty twelve, twenty thirteen etc. system. I do not see this as either a good or a bad thing, although comsistancy, as I said before is important, so keeping to the currently used two thousand and one, two thousand and two, two thousand and three etc. system could be better.
@James – Agreed!
Happy New Year. I’m still wondering what G, ooner meant…
Thanks to Clare. That was a fun post.
Thanks to you all. I think you should call it what you like to be honest, though I suspect we’ll all agree on twenty ten eventually.
And as well as a poll function on Red Alert, we’d really like to have an edit function for you to use when you comment and a few other facilities. But they cost money and we’re working out what to do about that.
Hope you all have a good New Year’s Day and that you’ve made a few resolutions that you might be able to keep.
Such a trickie question. I guess either way is fine.
They shouldn’t cost money Clare. WordPress have a wide variety of plugins.
I’m a fan of twenty-ten myself
Too right an edit function would be great – save me writing then editing in word then putting it on here (thats when I can be bothered going thru all that effort) – and a poll would be interesting as well.
Still sticking twenty ten – each to their own.
Twenty-ten reduces our carbon footprint by a full three syllables compared to Two-thousand-and-ten. That’s a stunning 60%, which is 20% more than Lucy Lawless’ target. Its a no-brainer really.
@Bea – 2000 and ten has no more syllables than 1989. I don’t mind twenty ten, I don’t like the sound of it to the ears as much as 2000 and ten, but to go off on a tagent isn’t compressing our language murdering it? Not talking about the 2010 argument. Txt language, shortening stuff, English is becoming a foreign language, would hate to see our language lose its beauty through being over simplified.
Carbon footprint? It’s shorter in numbers 2010.
Happy New Year Bes. 
Kenneth Mair would say 2H010
Happy New Year, j, abba!
Excuse my ignorance but huh? 
hey spud .. it’s a Wanganui thing
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Darn, I’m still calling it two thousand and ten, Radio Hauraki agrees with me!
Good on ya Cal
Twenty-ten for me.