But, it would have looked better for you if you spelled it millennium.
That second n seems to be the other Y2K problem.
I think people are going to say they were born in the year two thousand instead of the year zero zero.
Eddie, the answer is that you aren’t going to call those years anything at all. Haven’t you been reading the other threads? There will be no “after Dec. 31, 1999.” And if there is, we’re all going to be way too busy scrounging for electricity, sweeping up asteroid dust, saying “Hi” to God, and all that other stuff to have time to call it anything!
Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine
I favor the aughts, and I have the habit of breaking numbers into smaller groups, it facilitates my memory, so I’ll probably say twenty aught zero, twenty aught one, twenty aught two. I can hear myself now, “Heh, heh, why you sniveling pup, I kin 'member back in the winter of 20 aught 1 we would’ve loved to had moldy bread to chew on.”
Larry
I heard of the 1890’s called “The Gay Ninetys” (no, not that gay), the 1920’s called the “The Roaring Twenties” The 1950’s, “The Faboulus Fifties”, but what are the 1900’s, 1910’s, 30’s '40’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s & 1990’s called? Will the 1990’s be “the gay 90’s?” (yes, that guy) ??
Zymurgist
I heard of the 1890’s called “The Gay
Ninetys” (no, not that gay), the 1920’s
called the “The Roaring Twenties” The
1950’s, “The Faboulus Fifties”, but what
are the 1900’s, 1910’s, 30’s '40’s, 60’s,
70’s, 80’s & 1990’s called? Will the
1990’s be “the gay 90’s?” (yes, that gay)
??
Zymurgist
Sorry about that!
General usage:
1890s–The Gay [or Naughty] 90s
c1900-14–La Belle Epoch, or The Edwardian Age
1920s–The Roaring 20s
1930s–The Depression Years
1940s–The War Years
1950s–The Eisenhower Years
1960s–The Swinging 60s
1970s–The “Me” Generation, or Watergate Years
1980s–The Reagan Years
Fill in the blank:
The Seventies, The Eighties, The Nineties, The ______, The Teens, The Twenties.
- The 2Ks (Two-Kays)
- The Two Thousands
- The Oughts
- The Oughties
- The Noughts
- The Noughties
- The Nils
- The Nillies
- The Decade of the (Third) Millennium
- The Mils
- The Turn of the (21st) Century
- The Turn of the (Third) Millennium
- The Zeroes
- The Os (Ohs)
- The Zips
I prefer #1. History will probably refer back to this as #12 or #11.
Peace.
I’m going for “The Big Zero”.
But it’s hard to get that falsetto right.
(I wonder how many people read that and are going, “huh??”)
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peas on earth
I suspect people will just say “two thousand” for the first year (i.e. yeah, that was back in two thousand). After that, I suspect they’ll just say “oh one”, “oh two”, or 'two thousand and two", depending on the type of reference. i.e. “I went to university from 1998 until two thousand and two”, or “I went to university from oh two until oh six”.
I don’t think you’ll hear a lot of ‘ought’ because, even though that was used back for the turn of the century it’s kind of an anachronism now.
Just my guess.
Argh! People! Listen up. You still don’t get it. The original question was,
What are you going to call the decade of 2000-2009.
Not, “how are you going to say the individual years?”
-m
Oops.
Ignore that rant. Wrong bulletin board.
Sorry.
-m
Bantmof, I think the more important question is, “What the hell is Conan gonna do in four months?!”
I wonder too. But Andy is leaving (I’m not sure when), so maybe they’ll just stop the skit when he goes. Or maybe they’ll keep going as normal even after 2000 
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peas on earth
Ok, I fully admit right up front that this sounds appalling :-), but:
1980’s -> “eighties”
1990’s -> “nineties”
2000’s -> “hundreds”
2010’s -> “teens”
2020’s -> “twenties”
etc
I will guess that the specific years will be called “two thousand”, and then “oh one”, “oh two”, etc, at least in the 'states.
Yeah, I don’t like it either.
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peas on earth
I vote for the Naughty Aughties.
Holy shit, this is an old thread, about 21 years really! I wonder how old you all are now. Hello from the future.
You posted this 21 years ago! If you don’t mind me asking, how old are you now?