How would you pronounce this year (2010)?

[shijinn]

two zero one zero.

[Shot_From_Guns]

@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)?

[Nature_s_Call]

Oh-kay-doke

[GuanoLad]

@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.

[Arrendajo]

Dos mil diez.

[Koxinga]

@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

[Mr.Kobayashi]

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’.

[Colophon]

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”.