It’s twenty oh nine, people
So here we are into our tenth year of the new millennium, and we still can’t get it right.
I was born in nineteen forty six, not one thousand nine hundred and forty six.
It is twenty oh nine, people, not two thousand nine.
The next millennium will be twenty one hundred, not two thousand one hundred.
Why can’t we get this right? I realize that the year 2000 was a bit odd. It was hard to say twenty hundred, but that’s what she should have been saying.
Come on broadcast and cable networks. Help us out.
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January 1st, 2009 at 9:43 am
Ought Nine. 20 Ought Nine. I like it.
January 1st, 2009 at 10:17 am
2-double naught-9!
wishing you well in this new year, weee-doggie!
January 1st, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I was just saying the other day, “Only one more year before we start saying ‘twenty.’”
I think it’s the “Oh” issue. For some reason, we’re resisting “Oh-Eight” or “Oh-Nine.” And you can’t say “Twenty-Nine.”
Also, there’s no syllable savings in “Twenty-Oh-Nine.”
But you can say “Twenty-Ten” and so forth. And leave the issue for the hoverboard-riding folks who follow us in 2100 to sort out.
I’m happy to jump into this earlier, but I’m not holding my breath.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Fair enough. No matter how you say it…
Happy New Year, Terry!
January 5th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Maybe the years of the past decade have been pronounced that way because of the popularity of the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.” “Two thousand one,” not “Twenty Oh one.” I think we will start hearing “Twenty Ten” pretty soon.
January 16th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
I’m already saying “twenty oh nine”, but I don’t think it will become commonplace until 2011. There was a sequel to ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ called ‘2010: The Year We Made Contact’, (pronounced ‘two thousand ten’) and there are a lot of people who remember that pretty well.