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Originally Posted by irocnroll
And what where the dates in the 1900's called? They were not called One Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety Nine. It was Nineteen Ninety Nine.
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Those were the years of the Nineteen Hundreds. Nineteen Hundred Ninety Nine. Or Nineteen Ninety Nine.
I guess that makes this century the year of the 20 hundreds?
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Originally Posted by irocnroll
Twenty Ten is the correct way to say the date.
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Either way is acceptable, again I think you miss the point.
I do not prefer to say Twenty Ten. I won't call it that, and I listed the reasons. I read an article that said Twenty Ten is correct, but we called the 2000's incorrectly. "Twenty Aught Nine" should have been for Two Thousand Nine. Oh and it should be "Ten items or Fewer" not "Ten items or less" at the Grocery store. I guess my Camry is not a Two thousand Camry but a Twenty Aught Aught, or a Twenty hundred. Which by the way I've never heard someone say Twenty Hundred.
Again my point is, just because you don't like it, doesn't make it incorrect.
I used the year as a great case in point.