Poll: how do you pronounce 2010

[sooperman]

I pronounce it two-thousand-ten. You only say "and" if there is a fraction.

Like, two-thousand-and-ten-elevenths or something like that. Tsk tsk.

 

[Wintermoot]

we never called 1910 ninteteen-hundred-and-ten

Who's we?

Are you refering to yourself / friends / teachers etc living now or people that were living at that time?

Because unless you were there, or have a definitive source that accounts for the entire english speaking world at that time - I have to call bullshit on your entire premise.

OT: Both forms are acceptable english, one's just longer than the other and almost everybody except for Grammar Nazi's are happy to take short cuts... because they're lazy and lack discipline.

 

[XJ-0461]

Both. I usually say whatever pronunciation comes to mind first.

 

[Lord Monocle Von Banworthy]

The debate isn't even over nineteen hundred and ten. Did you call it one thousand nine hundred and ten? No? Then it ain't two thousand and ten.

I've been saying this since back in twenty-oh-one. It's all just a holdover from the Y2K hype when "THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND!!!!111oneone111eleven" was THE FUTURE.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

I pronounce it twenty-ten. It's easier to say, I find.

 

[Liberaliter]

Two thousand and ten.

 

[Cheesus333]

Two Thousand 'n Ten. Oh yes, I abbreviate.

 

[Pikeperch]

I say "Tjugohundratio", and I tend to get a bit of a twitch when people say "tvåtusentio".
The funny thing is that when I speak english I almost always say "two thousand and ten". I blame U.S tv-shows.

 

[Robby Foxfur]

20 10 for fast stuff, 2000 10 if i'm feeling really upper class. and 2K10 if i wanna kill myself lol, the 2k thing has got to stop ...

 

[2xDouble]

Most often I use the common shorthand "twenty-ten"; three syllables, nice and quick.

Sometimes I use the mathematically correct "two-thousand-ten". "Two-thousand and ten" mathematically implies the year is 2000.1 or $2000.10, which is silly.

Unrelated EDIT: yay, over 500 posts!

 

[Alberio]

I usually say Two Thousand and Ten. I know some people say "twenty ten" but I think it sounds a bit odd as we didn't call last year "twenty nine".

 

[KValentine]

This year.

 

[Ascarus]

I say two-thousand ten, not two-thousand and ten. That's because it is not two numbers. 20-10 is not a year.

/thread (or at least it should have been).

 

[Scde2]

I say twenty-ten. Why you ask?
It's short and people know what year you're talking about, that's fucking good enough.

 

[DustyDrB]

"Two thousand ten", but I still voted for "two thousand and ten"

Sort of on topic: when dating documents, I just cannot write '10.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Twenty ten, when a year is X00X then it's xthousand and x. but if it's X0XX etc. it is X-XX.

Did that make sense?

 

[AugustFall]

Twenty Ten, but I have said two thousand ten before.

I dunno, depends on context.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

"Twenty-ten," because it is much easier to say.

 

[Furious Styles]

mostly twenty ten, occasionally two thousand ten

 

[Diddy_Mao]

I say Twenty-Ten, but it's the only year I've done that with. The previous year was Two Thousand Nine and next year will be Two Thousand Eleven.