I enjoy the English language and, in particular, I have love-thing for grammar and its usage. That’s why I’m ashamed to say for years I’ve been wrong. You probably have been as well. But heading into the next week @ work and beyond, starting today in fact, let’s do our part to create past wrongs.
Start by calling it “twenty ten,” as decreed by the National Association of Good Grammar.
“NAGG has decided to step in and decree that (2010) should officially be pronounced ‘twenty ten,’ and all subsequent years should be pronounced as ‘twenty eleven,’ ‘twenty twelve,’ etc.,” proclaims the association’s news release.
The National Association of Good Grammar – essentially a guy named Tom Torriglia and some friends who also paid attention in English class – say people have been mispronouncing the year for 10 years.
“NAGG is here to put everybody back on the correct path,” Torriglia said by phone from his home in San Francisco. “We lost the battle when we went from 1999 to 2000 – but now we’re hoping to win the war.”
The “20″ should have been pronounced “twenty” all along, he said, pointing out that every year in the 20th century was pronounced “nineteen something.”
” ‘Twenty’ follows ‘nineteen.’ ‘Two thousand’ does not follow ‘nineteen.’ It’s logical.”
Makes perfect sense to me.
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I was about to become irate at the mere suggestion of calling it ‘twenty’ anything but I can’t fault his logic.
Twenty Ten it is.
as logical as some people getting together and deciding that Pluto isn’t a planet
it pronounces “The Dub-Dime” – Styles
my resolution is to see how long I can go along calling it “twenty ten” lol
I’m cool with that.
Twenty Ten, just got off to a great start after Leeds United dumped Manchester United out of the FA Cup, at Old Trafford.
Big up Jermaine Beckford, the first shining star of Twenty Ten, wamp wamp!
Just because we said 19 doesn’t mean it is grammatically correct, it just means people said it that way for a while. Claiming to be a national body when it’s just him and his book club meeting in mom’s basement doesn’t work either.
nagg harping on the world about grammer…priceless
Too late now… We have been calling it for last ten years. Still, who knows it might get popular.
I mean the century is referred to as the nineteen hundreds, eighteen hundreds so I guess it can go either way. I still say oh-ten.
I’ve been tellin people this since twenty o one. They didnt called it one thousand and ten. No, it was ten ten. Twenty ten. Twenty ten.
this shit doesn’t sound right. the year was nineteen-hundred, not just nineteen. there wasn’t a decimal it was a whole number. after nineteen-hundred ninety-nine comes two thousand not twenty-hundred, so wheres the problem. then again, i don’t know much about grammar or math.
Couple things won’t happen in Twenty Ten.
Detox, Greatest Story from Saigon, and an album for Jay Electronica.
Oh, Kanye will still be a douchebag.
Excuse me, but isn’t 2010 supposed to mark 2010 years since Jesus was born (miscalculations aside)?
So, why should we call it twentyten? That does not make any sense…
A whole millennia is more than just a while.
Happy to see someone else besides me finds weird shit like this interesting lol. Logic makes sense, but “twenty ten” still sounds strange..
Sombeody got mad at me the other day for calling the year “oh-ten”
I still like Twenty X.
I know it bothered me when people were saying “0-10″. I mean, no one was saying “0-09″ right? But, what can you do?
I don’t know about this. I mean what were we supposed to say in 2000, “twenty hundred.” When talking about money people would say nineteen hundred for “1900″ but for “2000″ nobody would say twenty hundred they say two thousand. Now twenty ten might be an easier way to say 2010 but the proper way is two thousand ten
Makes sense.
I would say NAGG has a valid point, except for the thousand years. Obviously we wouldn’t say ten hundred or twenty hundred, that’s what we invented the word thousand for… Other than that though, I guess it should have run twenty-oh-one, twenty-oh-two etc. Twenty-ten sounds good to me! Great post. Lol at Barry Washington too, sounding like Denny Crane, Denny Crane, DENNY CRANE!
oh helll naw,i know there aint no phony leeds fans in here insulting Man U….although an embarrassing loss,Man U is still top 3…so blah….wheres leeds…
Though I’m pronouncing it “twenty-ten,” it doesn’t make that much sense. 1-9-9-9 is “nineteen thousand ninety-nine…”
Anyways, this sound like some way for the man to control us…
I don’t know about the other years, but “twenty-ten” sounds bitchin’.
1-9-9-9 is “nineteen thousand ninety-nine…”
^^^
No its not.
What I wanna know is what the fuck to refer to this decade as??? 80′s were the eighties, 1990-99 were nineties, 2000-09 noughties (sounded ghey as fuck, will never use it), what the fuck is this decade, the teens??
I think it is time to get back to saying it the way we have for centuries. I am going with twenty ten.
For those who are still against this, “the 20 hundreds” makes perfect sense. There’s not much different about 19 and 20, yes it can be said two thousand but why if no-one called 1990′s “one thousand nine hundred ninety.”
Twenty ten, short and easy. Win!