# How would you pronounce this year (2010)? **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/21 "2010-06-08T19:23:09Z")
two zero one zero. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/22 "2010-06-08T19:58:23Z")
> [@Nature\_s\_Call](#): > > Odd yes, but at least somewhat sensical. Perhaps an improvement is oh-one-oh? 🆒 The key is _consistency_. How about 2k9 (two-kay-nine) and 2k10 (two-kay-ten)? ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/23 "2010-06-08T20:31:55Z")
Oh-kay-doke 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/24 "2010-06-08T23:08:34Z")
> [@Joe Frickin Friday](#): > > When you write a check, how do you spell out $2010.10? > [@Richard\_Pearse](#): > > 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”. I haven’t written a cheque in about fifteen years, but the flight pioneer is correct. In fact, I would have written it thus: _“Two thousand and ten dollars, 10c”_ which is how I was taught to do it when very young. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/25 "2010-06-08T23:35:16Z")
Dos mil diez. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/26 "2010-06-08T23:54:43Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I haven’t written a cheque in about fifteen years, but the flight pioneer is correct. In fact, I would have written it thus: _“Two thousand and ten dollars, 10c”_ which is how I was taught to do it when very young. I was taught to use a fraction for the cents portion: two thousand and ten dollars and 10/100 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/27 "2010-06-09T00:27:55Z")
Twenty-ten just sounds more consistent. I was annoyed when people referred to 2001 as ‘Two thousand and one’, every preceding century it’s been the other way; 1901 is ‘Nineteen oh-one’, even 1001 is ‘Ten oh-one’. Guess it just sounded better than ‘Twenty oh-one’. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340/28 "2010-06-09T01:35:27Z")
Logically, I know I ought to call it “twenty ten”, and I sometimes do if I think about it, but “two thousand and ten”\* is much more natural, at the moment. I suspect 2012 is when I’ll switch over to the “twenties” naturally. Most TV presenters etc seem to do the same - it’s the “two thousand and ten World Cup” but the “twenty twelve Olympics”, for instance. - I’m in the UK, so, like in Australia, we use the “and”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-pronounce-this-year-2010/542340.md?page=1)