# How would you pronounce this year (2010)?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 7, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340 "2010-06-07T21:01:26Z")
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### Author:  [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/1 "2010-06-07T21:01:26Z")
Inspired by my previous thread. I had no idea there was so much disagreement. So let’s settle this: how do you pronounce “2010”?
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### Author:  [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/2 "2010-06-07T21:02:18Z")
“Twenty Ten,” or “Two Thousand Ten,” if I were feeling formal.
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/3 "2010-06-07T21:03:41Z")
I pronounce it “twenty-ten.” The alternative, I guess, is “two thousand ten.”
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### Author:  [@PsyXe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PsyXe)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/4 "2010-06-07T21:03:47Z")
Twenty Ten.
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### Author:  [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/5 "2010-06-07T21:40:49Z")
I decided to stop preceeding the year with “two thousand” when 2009 ended. From here on out, I will preceed each year with “twenty”… So, Twenty Ten
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### Author:  [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/6 "2010-06-07T21:55:20Z")
Depends. Sometimes twenty ten, sometimes two thousand and ten.
For some reason twenty eleven doesn’t sound right to me, but twenty twelve does.
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/7 "2010-06-08T01:51:07Z")
I’ve been favoring twenty since twenty double aught. Yeah yeah, kids, lawn, whatever.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/8 "2010-06-08T03:29:35Z")
Two thousand and ten. The “and” is a style difference between the USA and other English speaking countries so it’s really the equivalent of an American calling it two thousand ten.
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/9 "2010-06-08T03:35:15Z")
Two thousand ten. Twenty-ten sounds weird.
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### Author:  [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2010, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/10 "2010-06-08T08:49:58Z")
Twenty-ten, mostly. Sometimes I say two thousand ten (usually when I’m being pompous).
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2010, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/11 "2010-06-08T08:55:43Z")
Two thousand and ten.
I’m not going to say “twenty-whatever” until 2013, because I think “twenty-eleven” and “twenty-twelve” sound awkward and ugly.
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### Author:  [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2010, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/12 "2010-06-08T09:18:02Z")
[Another poll from December last year](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11876580) – it might be interesting to compare the results.
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### Author:  [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2010, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/13 "2010-06-08T12:49:13Z")
Yes, a lot more people are going with “twenty ten” now!
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### Author:  [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/14 "2010-06-08T13:26:30Z")
I pronounce it “The year we made contact”
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### Author:  [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2010, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/15 "2010-06-08T13:42:19Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> Two thousand and ten.
When you write a check, how do you spell out $2010.10?
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### Author:  [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/16 "2010-06-08T14:42:33Z")
I voted “twenty ten” but almost went with “other”. We were discussing the various versions of Microsoft Visual Studio, which lately have been named with years, e.g. Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2005, etc. We currently use Visual Studio 2008, but have used each of the prior versions. When talking about the differences between them we would say things like, “Yes, VS-oh-3 did this, then VS-oh-5 did it that way.”
We are now preparing to replace Visual Studio 2008 with the Visual Studio 2010. In discussing the differences I find myself saying “VS-oh-8 does this, how will it work in oh-ten?”
The first time I said “oh-ten” I stopped thinking I had made an error. Then I remembered that there IS an ‘oh’ before the ‘ten’ so what’s wrong with referring to the year as ‘oh-ten’? However the only time I’'ve said “oh-ten” is if the conversation includes years prior to 2010. More often I would say “twenty ten”
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### Author:  [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/17 "2010-06-08T14:50:37Z")
Twenty Ten because I used to say nineteen ninty nine, I never said 19 hundred anything.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/18 "2010-06-08T15:51:15Z")
> [@Joe Frickin Friday](#):
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> When you write a check, how do you spell out $2010.10?
I’ll answer this while Guano Lad finds his way back. We don’t really do cheques in Australia but if I had to I’d probably write _two thousand and ten dollars and ten cents._ It’s what I would say at any rate. It’s not really “two thousand and ten” it’s more like “two thousand ‘n’ ten”.
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### Author:  [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/19 "2010-06-08T18:35:31Z")
“Twenty-ten,” as in the fortunately not-so-accurately-prescient [Bad Religion song](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bad+religion+ten+in+2010).
> [@Nature\_s\_Call](#):
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> The first time I said “oh-ten” I stopped thinking I had made an error. Then I remembered that there IS an ‘oh’ before the ‘ten’ so what’s wrong with referring to the year as ‘oh-ten’?
It’s wrong because you’re changing formats. “Oh nine” is the last two digits of the year: '09. “Oh ten” is the last three: '010. It’s common to drop the millenium and century when discussing years, so for you to include the century is a bit odd.
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### Author:  [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/20 "2010-06-08T18:51:36Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#):
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> It’s wrong because you’re changing formats. “Oh nine” is the last two digits of the year: '09. “Oh ten” is the last three: '010. It’s common to drop the millenium and century when discussing years, so for you to include the century is a bit odd.
Odd yes, but at least somewhat sensical. Perhaps an improvement is oh-one-oh? 🆒
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