My question is, how did you pronounce — '00s — in your head when you read the title? Me, I said “ohs” (like the plural of “oh”).
My first thought upon reading the title was “the zeroes”, which is what I have pretty much settled on.
Oughts.
There was a similar thread last year here.
Reading the title, “Ohs” came to mind first. Then I thought “zeros” make more sense. Then I thought, the decade a century ago I think of as the nineteen hundreds. So this decade should be the twenty hundreds, or “hundreds” for short. Then I thought, only 6 more years until we’re rid of this un-namable decade.
Yeah, there’ve been other threads. I was hoping to make this one different by just using '00 in passing and then asking people how they heard it. In other words, what was the spontaneous reaction without thinking it through?
I actually don’t hear anything. I read it as “Poll about the early (blank)s”, the s being almost silent itself.
Well, I initially didn’t guess what the thread was about, and I thought to myself, “Poll about the early nineteen-hundreds.” Then I considered that it might be “about the early two-thousands.”
'K?
Me too. “Double oughts”, actually.
(I also write my 7’s with a little hash mark)
I’m with Jayn. I don’t hear anything.
That is very odd.
I hear, “The oh-ohs”; or more accurately, “The uh-ohs.”
[aside]
Libertarian, check your private messages at Fathom. Or email me
at joneemak AT hotmail DOT com. I’d like to barter a book of poetry or
something with you.
[/aside]
Ohs, I guess.
When having to discuss the decade, I say the new millinneum.
I automatically translated it to (and heard) 2000s.
I prefer “ought” because it is best for both an individual year, “ought two,” and the decade, “the oughts.” Most people look at me strangely when I say it though. Mostly I hear: “since the turn of the century” or individual years like “zero one” or “oh three.”
Also hear 2K. Like 2K1 or the 2K’s. This for some reason irritates me.
If it’s something like a used car, I say it’s an “oh one.” Or the contract runs through “oh seven.”
If it’s a situation where I would use the two thousand in front of a number, I say two thousand four. NOT two thousand AND four. I’ve heard both are correct, but I don’t like the and part.
I wonder how long it will take until we stop saying two thousand, and just say the contract runs through twenty ten. Maybe when we get out of the zeros.
When I saw the '00s, I immediately thought noughties. That is the term I’ve generally heard for '00.
Without thinking about it, “poll about the early nineteen-hundreds” came to mine first, then “…about the early two-thousands”.
I call current year “dickety-ought-four”, though.
How strange. I know there were discussions about this earlier but until this thread it didn’t dawn on me that I haven’t really heard the decade called anything. A weird aural and mental gap, that.
I sort of vaguely thought of it as the “oh-hundreds”, probably harkening back to the beginning of the last century: nineteen-oh-whatever.
Oughts don’t fit snugly into my admittedly messy mental grooves, nor do 2K versions. I hope some consensus is reached because this could get very awkward after a while.
I generally think of it as “2000s”, “oh-ohs” or nothing.
Oh’s for me. I think of the individual years (except 2000 itself) as “twenty-oh-X”, so the decade as “ohs” is the natural extension of that.