The 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s...

[Hector]

...ok...how about this decade?

What should we call it?

Even with 10 years to decide, still no name for the decade - Yahoo! News

[kingdom warrior]

The decade that sucked ***!!!!!!!

[bobws]

I call it the aoughts.... aought to have been better, aought 1 aought 2 and so on.

[LOU]

LOL! I've thought about this in the past and just decided that it would simply be the same way we refer to 1900-1919...we don't. Actually, come 2020, there would officially be two 20s anyway so then comes the issue (at least for our generation born in the 1900s that will actually live through two of these century marks) which does the term "20s" then refer to? 1920-1929 or 2020-2029?

[alex]

Good topic, Ive also thought about this, what about the years from 2000 till now, the zero decade? 0,10,20 etc., on the other hand this decade will be "the tens"

[johnnystorm]

1900-1920 is often just referred to as the "early 1900S). I can't say I've ever read or heard the term the '10s, it usually starts with the '20s. So maybe just the early 2000s will be the term for the first 20 years of this century.

[Mikey]

In general speech I call this past decade the 2000's .... "The Two Thousands"

[SUP-Ronin]

The 20-hundreds. just like the 18-hundreds, and so on.

[Cosmicman]

The 2000's sucked *** for me! I spent the majority peddling around music to get where I am at today. Went through a lot of idiots of musicians who turned out to be druggies or brain dead to get the band we have now.

[toys2cool]

good question I was asking my wife this the other day

[Rallygirl]

I can remember my Great Grandma saying things like, "I visited Chicago back in aught and seven". I like the ring of that, but I think most folks find it too old fashioned sounding.

[Gorn Captain]

The early 2000s?

[hobub]

Prior to 1999, the OO's were referred to as "back around the turn of the century".

Or like stated above but slightly different, something like "back in 07" (pronouced oh-seven).

the 00's (prounced oh-oh's) works for me.


I just wonder why just exactly ten years ago, it was Nineteen-ninety-nine. And then what came next? ... two-thousand, two-thousand and one, two thousand and two.

Why wasn't it "one-thousand, one hundred and ninetynine?" And when are they simply going to say the year is twenty-ten, twenty-eleven, ... twenty-twenty, twenty-twentyone, etc, etc, and cut this "nine hundred ninety nine milllion" drawn out crap that they never referred to prior to the year 2000.

[kryptosmaster]

And when are they simply going to say the year is twenty-ten, twenty-eleven, ... twenty-twenty, twenty-twentyone, etc, etc, and cut this "nine hundred ninety nine milllion" drawn out crap that the never referred to prior to the year 2000.

I think twenty-oh-nine just sounds weird but twenty-ten works. Maybe that's why it's like that. The years from now on (2010-up) sound better than two-thousand and ten. Plus twenty-twenty just sounds neat.

I have caught myself saying twenty-oh-ten.

Rich

[saildog]

2000 to 2009 have generally been referred to as "Two Thousand, Two Thousand One,...."

Already, I hear Twenty Twelve tossed around so, I am guessing Two Thousand Nine will give way to Twenty Ten and we will carry on from there. Or it could stay Two Thousand Ten, Eleven, Twelve.

Funny how you heard Nineteen O One, but never Twenty O One (opting for Two Thousand One). Well, really it isn't....One Thousand Nine Hundred O One would have been a mouthful.

Seems like convention has a choice for the next several decades.