Two thousand and ten or twenty-ten?

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How do you think people will pronounce 2010? Two thousand and ten or twenty-ten?

You need a third option... "who cares"...

or maybe 'both'.

What the...??? I made this exact same poll about a week ago!! ! How dare you??! !

Following NT convention it would be twenty-ten. As in that sounds better than two thousand and ten. Already here twenty-twelve in reference to those silly 2012 doomsday predictions based on people not understanding a cyclic calendar starts again from the beginning when it ends rather than being a predictor of the end of the world.

20-10 is quicker to say and I think its kind of an arbitrary number anyway

It is an arbitrary number indeed.

I'd say two thousand and ten, like this year I always call two thousand and nine, not twenty-o-nine or twenty-nine.
People who say twenty-ten and twenty-twelve, do they also say twenty-o-nine, or twenty-nine? I never heard that (or twenty-twelve). But it is shorter.

It is also a matter of language. Maybe that's why I never heard twenty-o-nine or twenty-nine? Or does no one call 2009 that?
Because in English if you would say twenty-nine then you'll get 29 (or 20-9), so probably no one will call 2009 twenty-nine or do you?
In Dutch it works differently. In Dutch twenty-nine would be 20-9, 29 we call nine-and-twenty ("negenentwintig"; just like in German you would say "neunundzwanzig")
And in Dutch saying twenty-o-nine isn't shorter than saying two thousand and nine; it's the same number of syllables. Though twenty-nine or twenty-ten are shorter.
How does it work for the 1900s, do you say nineteen-six or do you say nineteen-o-six?
Nineteen-six is shorter, but nineteen-o-six is actually clearer or more accurate. But if you know someone is talking about a year, adding the o isn't necessary.

2010 is also MMX, 2009 is MMIX, 2011 is MMXI and 2012 is MMXII.
I like Roman numerals.

I don't understand klick's "7DA", "7D9" and "7DB"

2-10

like 9/11, Americans shorten things.

Twenty Ten.

I didn't say Nineteen hundred and ninety-five, so why would I say Two thousand and...

The integral from 32 to 2042 of dx.

Twenty Ten rolls off the tongue a little bit easier, and sounds more pleasant, I think. Two Thousand Ten, while familiar, just seems more "clunky". Maybe it's just the three syllables is just easier than four.

I would have thought that it is generally easier to use the last two digits when referring to a particular year. E.g, "the best of O8, 63, 89 etc".

However, in the case of 2010 "twenty ten" is more appropriate as "ten" sounds far too vague. I reckon the aforementioned format will be used until 2021 then we will return to using the last two digits


chris

Two thousand and ten!

Otherwise, who freaking cares?

I miss the 90s and 1900s so 20-10 all the way. Twenty ten just sounds better and I want to put this foul decade behind us.