I said “two thousand and…” from 2001 to 2009 and “twenty” for subsequent years.
“Two thousand and one” is no more or less correct than “two thousand one.”
two-thousand eleven is a mouthful, but it sounds a LOT better to me then the alternative.
I wonder though, now that we are past the aughts why can’t we just go back to the tried and true method of just saying the last two numbers? If you say you bought your car in '11 it’s not like anyone is going to think you mean 1911.
I say “two thousand eleven”.
I can count on my fingers the number of times I’ve heard people (not on TV) say twenty eleven. Apparently it’s not a popular choice around here.
We can. Some of us have.
I was saying “oh two” in '02.
I said ‘oh-1, oh-2’ and ‘twenty ten’ but ‘twenty eleven’ just doesn’t roll off my tongue well.
I say ‘two thousand eleven’ but I know I don’t come off pedantic as I rush through it in a garbled sort of way.
For some reason it doesn’t seem like it’ll feel right to just say the last two numbers until we get to 2021. “Yup, sold the place in '21.” shrug Can’t speak as to why but that’s the year it’ll all even out again.
I actually heard someone on the radio here say, “Twenty oh nine” for 2009.
I just drop the first letter from “eleven.”
It usually comes out sounding something like “Twennylebben.” 
The convention I grew up with in the late 1900’s was “nineteen-[2-digit number]” as in “nineteen eighty-five.” Not once did anyone ever call it “one-thousand nine-hundred eighty-five.” Thus, “twenty-eleven.”
I grew up with Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001, which was always pronounced “Two Thousand and One,” so I’m sticking with that form.
This is not a convention that exists in the real world. There might be an “and,” but it will be used in conjunction with other cues to indicate that a fraction is meant, such as “two thousand and eleven hundredths.” Although I have seen it claimed as such on this board, I have never seen a bare “and” unambiguously indicating a decimal point in the wild.
Two thousand eleven.
Years will begin with “twenty-” next year.
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The cheques I’ve written (admittedly a long time ago, since the average person doesn’t write cheques in a personal capacity much here anymore, at least for buying things from shops etc) would have been for (say) “One hundred and ten dollars and forty-seven cents”, with the amount in numbers in the appropriate place on the cheque. Cheques I’ve received are in the same format, FWIW.
Me too.
“Two Thousand, Eleven” sounds like the score from most one-sided football match in the universe to me.
I’m pushing towards twenty-eleven now, to the point where it sounds weird when I hear people say two-thousand eleven.
I prefer the earlier version because you are definitely talking about a year. While the 3rd digit was a zero, I would say oh-number to be unambiguous, saying oh-ten or oh-eleven just sounds too weird.
Still, once we get past the teens, I’ll probably only say the last two digits when I can get away with it. I don’t know why I don’t like to do that with 2011 - 2019. It just sounds wrong to my ears.
Two thousand and eleven.
In British English and some other dialects, you say ‘and’ before the tens column, or before the units column if the tens column’s a zero. Nothing to do with decimal places and no more ‘incorrect’ than not saying the and.
Really? I’d think Brits would be more likely to say “Eleven and two thousand.”
I’m with those who think there’s just something wrong with “twenty eleven”. “Twenty ten” is fine, as is “twenty twelve”, but for some reason it sounds wrong for 2011.
It’s perfectly acceptable to put an ‘oh’ before the “eleven” as long as you leave off the twenty or two-thousand part. After all, there is a zero before the last two digits.