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

[saildog]

The Naughties.

That was more of the 90s for me , but as a catchy nomenclature, devoid of an alliterative/analogous meaning ( as in, "the naughty nineties", in my case)....it works.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

The Naughties.

[garagesale]

The Oughts.

[johnnystorm]

Funny how you heard Nineteen O One, but never Twenty O One (opting for Two Thousand One)

Funny, now that you mention it, I always read 2001: a Space Odyssey as TWENTY-OH-ONE. Seems odd to me as Two-Thousand-oh-one.

[Zemo]

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

Same here and most everyone I know.

[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.

[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

[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.

[Gorn Captain]

The early 2000s?

[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.

[toys2cool]

good question I was asking my wife this the other day

[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.

[SUP-Ronin]

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

[Mikey]

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

[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.