How I Pronounce the Year

This is just a fluff post, not meant to be taken seriously.

I say 2010 as ‘Two-Thousand Ten.’  No ‘and.’  It’s a minor pet peeve when someone says ‘Twenty Ten.’  It just doesn’t sound right.  After all, no one said ‘Twenty Oh-Nine’ for the year 2009, did they? No. So why use that format for 2010? Also, was 1010 ‘Ten Ten?’ No, it was ‘One-Thousand Ten.’

This is strictly a ‘thousand’ thing.  1999 was ‘Nineteen Ninety-Nine.’ 2009 was ‘Two-Thousand Nine.’ 2109 will probably be ‘Twenty-One Oh-Nine’ rather than ‘Twenty-One Nine.’

So now you know how to say the year correctly.