Will you say “Two Thousand Ten”?
Will you say “Twenty Ten”?
Tags: 2010, happy new year, language, linquistics, new year, twenty ten
Will you say “Two Thousand Ten”?
Will you say “Twenty Ten”?
Tags: 2010, happy new year, language, linquistics, new year, twenty ten
December 31, 2009 at 12:07 pm |
Twenty-Ten!
Please, no more butchering our number system with “Two Thousand AND Nine”!!!
December 31, 2009 at 7:41 pm |
Institutrice, I agree. Forgive the situation, please. People, even people with massive amounts of education, speak differently than they write. Thank you for posting. I’ll be listening, and will report back what I hear people saying.
January 1, 2010 at 9:27 am |
Ok, since it’s a holiday I listened to some radio shows this morning. The air talent on wbur on three occasions were using the full “two thousand ten”, but one announcer on the BBC world new broadcast cleary said “twenty ten”
January 3, 2010 at 1:55 pm |
Well, on the show “Coast to Coast AM”, I noticed that host Ian Punnett deliberately said the year both ways, Twenty-Ten and Two Thousand Ten. Not many poll respondents yet, so we don’t have a big sample. It looks like there’s no clear trend in speech yet.
January 4, 2010 at 5:41 am |
OK, I listened to a very similar discussion as this thread, in which one person claims that they’ve been saying
Two K One
Two K Two
.
.
.
Two K Nine
Two K Ten
I never though of that