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[zipper]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/MN621BB41U.DTL

I kind of like saying Twenty-ten myself, because it has more flow for me...How will you say it in class?

[mmstyle]

Twenty-ten is way more sci-fi.

I'm a sci-fi nut.

Twenty-ten it is.

Besides, just rolls off the tongue better. And yeah, last century it was the "Aughts," from "a naught". According to some, perhaps wrong, but I always thought it sounded cool.

[frankly speaking]

I will have to go with two thousand and ten. I do like 20-10, but I don't think that it is natural for me to say it. Too hip and geeky.

[Fox]

Two thousand and ten for me. I know people make the argument that we say "nineteen ninety" for 1990 and so forth, but that's because the alternative is "one thousand, nine hundred and ninety," which is huge. Two thousand and ten is manageble. Starting in 2101, I'l say, "Twenty one oh one." And yes, I'll still be around.

[ponyo]

it's twenty ten. the only reason we said two thousand one, two, etc. is because twenty one isn't right and twenty oh one isn't shorter. twenty ten is shorter and clear, so it's what we'll end up saying...

[kimchi girl]

If you're asking what the personal choice is or how it 'should' be said, you might get different answers.

It 'should' be said twenty-ten. The standard way of saying a given year had been in place for 80 some off years, and then the damned year 2001 happened, which apparently in this day and age people are so easily distracted that things/methods can be changed over night.

1904--- say that to yourself. Did you say nineteen hundred and four? I doubt it. Now say 1910, 1914, 1929 etc. Unless you're saying "nineteen hundred AND" for each of them, you know how you 'should' be saying 2010.

[KoreanAmbition]

Hmmm,

If you say "twenty ten" for the year 2010, then what do you say for 2001?

"twenty-one?"

[kimchi girl]

[Xuanzang]

[Sector7G]

[donducky]

오 마이 가드!

2010은 한국말로 "이천십"--OK?

[Konglishman]

[Chambertin]

Until we hit the 21** years it will be two thousand and **. Remember your history classes.

1047 = one thousand fourty seven.
1125 = eleven twenty five.

However like all rules in English it dosent matter what is right it matters what people will say. For all any of us know my teacher was wrong, and even if they were right we have to wait to see what becomes popular before any verdict is given.

I just teach when you see a *0** year then you say the number as it reads. *(* not = 0)** is broken in half.

Let the grammer natzis figt this one out.

[Cayne]

It's the future, baby! Twenty ten.

Besides it's become the norm on TV here in the states, so I would think it would makes sense to go with the most common way of saying it. I mean back in '99 you probably didn't go around saying nineteen hundred and ninety nine.

[Chambertin]