TS: "Two-thousand [and] ten" vs. "Twenty-ten"

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What are you going to call it? I've given this a lot of thought myself. This is very important.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Twenty-ten	27
Two-thousand [and] ten	20

― Without Curves, I would feel deflated. I like Curves. They are best. (Stevie D), Friday, 1 January 2010 19:32 (fifteen years ago) link

TWO ZERO ONE ZERO

― agonising dusk in the decade where i turn 30 (acoleuthic), Friday, 1 January 2010 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link

THE DIME

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Friday, 1 January 2010 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link

nobody calls 1941 one-thousand nine-hundred and forty-one

― doomed... to fart (cankles), Friday, 1 January 2010 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link

I remember hearing an NWA track where the year is announced as being "NINETEEN NINETY M*****F****** ONE", so I will call 2010 "TWO THOUSAND AND M*****F****** TEN". Because in-fix swearing is fan-fucking-tastic.

― 12 inches of (snoball), Friday, 1 January 2010 19:35 (fifteen years ago) link

(xpost) used to have a lecturer at college who would say "that was in the year nineteen hundred and fifty seven"

― 12 inches of (snoball), Friday, 1 January 2010 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Two-hundred-and-one-oh

― Ismael Klata, Friday, 1 January 2010 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Alternatively I shall refer to it as "THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT"

― 12 inches of (snoball), Friday, 1 January 2010 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Y2KX

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 1 January 2010 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link

MultiMedia eXtension because of MMX

― 12 inches of (snoball), Friday, 1 January 2010 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link

the O'Ten

― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Friday, 1 January 2010 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link

Both. To my own immense annoyance.

― Error: No Error (grimly fiendish), Friday, 1 January 2010 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link

Jackson-Hamilton.

― Cunga, Friday, 1 January 2010 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link

TWO OH ONE OH (/markesmith)

― great sugar wall of sheena (donna rouge), Friday, 1 January 2010 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link

"oh ten" seconded

― Maria, Friday, 1 January 2010 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 30 January 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link

As a Cornelius fan, I really have no choice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Slc_OyRTt0Y

― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 30 January 2010 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link

20X

― James Mitchell, Saturday, 30 January 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link

"Twenty-ten" does sound right. I just don't think I've actually heard anyone say it.

― Sundar, Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link

i missed this but massive lol @ "THE DIME"

haha i also think of that cornelius track

― call all destroyer, Sunday, 31 January 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link

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