# What are we going to call the coming decade?  The "Twentyteens"?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 10, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-going-to-call-the-coming-decade-the-twentyteens/560178 "2010-11-10T15:09:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-going-to-call-the-coming-decade-the-twentyteens/560178/21 "2010-11-10T23:11:54Z")

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I call the last decade the Ohs (as in oh-five, oh-six) and this decade is the Teens. It’s not hard.

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**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-going-to-call-the-coming-decade-the-twentyteens/560178/22 "2010-11-11T03:23:42Z")

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The Tens or the Twenty-tens, written the '10s or the 2010s. By the time they lie in the past, it won’t confuse anyone.

“Teens” strikes me as a bit ridiculous; teens are children, not years.

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**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-going-to-call-the-coming-decade-the-twentyteens/560178/23 "2010-11-11T03:57:05Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> For that matter, did we ever decide what to call the decade now ending? The “Naughtys”, or what?

We don’t call it anything until we come up with a name that doesn’t sound totally asinine.

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**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-going-to-call-the-coming-decade-the-twentyteens/560178/24 "2010-11-11T03:59:07Z")

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Tens or Tennies

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**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-going-to-call-the-coming-decade-the-twentyteens/560178/25 "2010-11-11T04:06:13Z")

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> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#):
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> We don’t call it anything until we come up with a name that doesn’t sound totally asinine.

And by the time that happens, they’ll be far enough in the past that “The twenties” will mean something to do with a networked world and Lunar tourism and not “People in fedoras dancing the Charleston in black & white silent movies”.

Even now, when I talk about “The turn of the century” there are people who think I’m referring to the 1999-2001ish period and not the _18_99-_19_01ish period

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**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-going-to-call-the-coming-decade-the-twentyteens/560178/26 "2010-11-11T04:49:16Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Has this been decided yet?

The Crazy Years. Just you watch.

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> For that matter, did we ever decide what to call the decade now ending? The “Naughtys”, or what?

The Nothings.

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**Author:** ![dzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@dzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzero)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-we-going-to-call-the-coming-decade-the-twentyteens/560178/27 "2010-11-11T15:51:53Z")

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The world will end soon, so don’t worry about it.

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