Steve's Grammar: Is it "Twenty ten" or "Two thousand ten"?

kymbossays...

Does he do lots of these? Four minutes to tell us the answer? I lasted about a minute. Feel free to tell me where he finally got to, and hopefully it won't be 'you can use either'.

BoneyDsays...

>> ^gnargnar:
I don't care as long as people don't say "Two thousand AND ten." The term "and" implies a decimal in number talk. It's "two thousand ten" or "twenty ten."


We say "two thousand and ten" here (Australia) and that's also how they pronouned it in the UK. It seems to be a uniquely American thing to take the 'and' out.

If we were to describe a decimal point, for '2010.5' we would say "two thousand and ten point five".

I predict people will largely say "twenty ten", simply because it's faster.

Xaxsays...

Kind of a pointless video. It is whatever people say it is, and I couldn't care less what people use. I'm down with "twenty ten" because it's one or two fewer syllables.

The only time "and" has meant "decimal" (for me) was in my high-school science classes. The general population doesn't take "and" to mean "decimal."

MaxWildersays...

Since nobody was going to say twenty aught one (through nine), we got used to saying two thousand. I got no problem with either version, but since we are used to saying two thousand, it will probably stick around for a lot of people. It's only a difference of one syllable, so anybody who likes to talk fast and use shortcuts will probably go for twenty ten (plus it has the sharper sound), and others will continue with the slightly longer, more dramatic version.

xxovercastxxsays...

>> ^kymbos:
Does he do lots of these? Four minutes to tell us the answer? I lasted about a minute. Feel free to tell me where he finally got to, and hopefully it won't be 'you can use either'.


There is no "answer", that's why it's called Steve's Grammatical Observations.

ridesallyridencsays...

I've heard a lot of people calling it "oh-ten" which, really gets on my nerves. As in, "Now that we're in the third quarter of 09, we need to start looking forward to Oh-ten." Technically correct, I guess, but still kinda douchey.

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