Although my Word spell checker keeps flagging (marking) it as incorrect, the ‘noughties’ is the name that seems to have caught on (become popular) to refer to the first decade of the 21st century. The word “noughties” comes from the ‘nought’ (zero), in front of each year number: 2001, 2002, 2003, etc. and sounds like ‘naughty’, which is probably the reason for its success.
Other suggestions that didn’t catch on were: ‘the twenty-hundreds’, ‘the double ohs’, ‘the twenty-os’, ‘the oh-ohs’, ‘the ohs’, ‘the zeros’, ‘the two thousands’, ‘the ones’, …
What will we call the decade that has just begun (2010-2019)? The favourites seem to be ‘the twenty-tens’, ‘the tens’, ‘the teenies’ and ‘the teens’. Time will tell.
There’s also some confusion about how to say the year ‘2010’. Although 2009 was ‘two thousand and nine’, the year 2010 is pronounced either ‘twenty ten’ or ‘two thousand (and) ten’. Some people even say ‘oh ten’. So it’s up to you (it’s your choice/decision) how you say it.
Source: Revista Think in English. http://www.macmillandictionary.com/buzzword/entries/noughties.html
Other suggestions that didn’t catch on were: ‘the twenty-hundreds’, ‘the double ohs’, ‘the twenty-os’, ‘the oh-ohs’, ‘the ohs’, ‘the zeros’, ‘the two thousands’, ‘the ones’, …
What will we call the decade that has just begun (2010-2019)? The favourites seem to be ‘the twenty-tens’, ‘the tens’, ‘the teenies’ and ‘the teens’. Time will tell.
There’s also some confusion about how to say the year ‘2010’. Although 2009 was ‘two thousand and nine’, the year 2010 is pronounced either ‘twenty ten’ or ‘two thousand (and) ten’. Some people even say ‘oh ten’. So it’s up to you (it’s your choice/decision) how you say it.
Source: Revista Think in English. http://www.macmillandictionary.com/buzzword/entries/noughties.html
1 comment:
Pesonally, I prefer "twenty ten", it has a nice sound to it, don't you think?
Nice post!
Cristina
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