Will You Now say "Ten" or "O-Ten"?

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   Wag The Dogposted 14 years ago

   For the last nine years, I have placed an "O" in front of the year: "O-One" through "O-Nine."  And last night I said, "It is now "O"-Ten."  Technically speaking, this is still correct, but will this be the way 2010 is spoken of, as "O-Ten?"
   
   Are you going to say "Ten" or "O-Ten"?

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      Shadesbreathposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Why in the heck would anyone say "Oh-ten?"  You say "Oh-9 and Oh-8, etc." because they have an "Oh" in front of them after you split off the first half to shorten it: 2009 = '09. There's no "Oh" in 2010... it's a twenty and a ten if you're going to split off the first two numbers as is traditional.

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         lightning johnposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Zero is a number, last time I checked!

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      KCC Big Countryposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Using that "logic" you'll be saying "0" in front of the year for the rest of the century!   0-99 anyone? 
      
      I'm with Shadesbreath.  We only said "0" because of 01, 02, etc.   The O's are gone.  Remember the 90s?  We simply said we did something back in '92.  Time to get used to that again.  We did something back in '10 or '11. 
      
      Getting used to leaving off the "0" will take some practice though since we've spent the last decade saying it that way.  I've caught myself saying it a couple of times and had to correct myself.

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      relacheposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      No, it's not.
      
      "Two thousand and ten" or "twenty-ten" are your correct options for saying the present year.
      
      "O" (pronouned "oh") isn't even the correct way to state the number zero, as it's the name of a letter of the alphabet, not a numeral.

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   itechposted 14 years ago

   0-Ten

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   dogluver1posted 14 years ago

   O-ten

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   Gemsongposted 14 years ago

   Well
   
   We did say nineteen ten for 1910. So twenty ten for 2010.

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   AEvansposted 14 years ago

   two-thousand 10

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   Janettaposted 14 years ago

   Probably twenty-ten "ten' just sounds weird and "oh-ten" sounds incorrect

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   manlypoetrymanposted 14 years ago

   "Ten" does sound weird...I'm thinking everyone will just have to bite the bullet and say the whole mouthfull..."Two thousand and ten" everytime...kind'a like AE said.

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   Gemsongposted 14 years ago

   With me... I'll be very likely writing the wrong date for a least a month at work.

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   IzzyMposted 14 years ago

   I think I will be saying twenty ten.

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    nadiaazharposted 14 years ago

    I'll go with Twenty-Ten

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    travelespressoposted 14 years ago

    2010 looks great written.  However, saying it is just plain weird!  I think I'm gonna say twenty ten.

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    lyricsingrayposted 14 years ago

    twenty

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    K Partinposted 14 years ago

    twenty-ten...

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    Wag The Dogposted 14 years ago

    Ya, just as I will have to train myself to write 2010, instead of 2009, I'll have to train myself to say twenty-ten as well. Hmmm...  That does sound better.

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    europewalkerposted 14 years ago

    twenty-ten

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    DaniellaWoodposted 14 years ago

    Very good point. I've always wondered that - if we called the 60s the 60s and the 20s the 20s, what do we call 1910-1919? We can't very well say "back in the 10s"! It makes no sense, so I'd probably just stick to saying "twenty-ten".

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    Bill Manningposted 14 years ago

    Twenty ten, or two thousand ten.

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    RealEstateHelperposted 14 years ago

    Two thousand ten

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    Christeneposted 14 years ago

    Twenty ten.

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    Glenn Stokposted 14 years ago

    Twenty-ten just seems to sound better to me.
    
    I used to talk about the 70's and the 80's.  Someday we'll be talking about the ten's.  Now that just sounds weird ... the ten's.

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    Wag The Dogposted 14 years ago

    Well, 10 through 12 we can call the "tweens" and 13 through 19 we can call the "teens"  How's that?  Like, Back in the tweens..." or "Back in the teens..."  Will that work?

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       rmcrayneposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Tweens.  I like it.  Others can call it silly, stupid, whatever.  But I like it. 
       
       But it's definitely not 0-10.

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    trish1048posted 14 years ago

    What difference does it make?  We all know it's not 1910

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