What year is this?

Bubbie · Post by **Bubbie** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:01 pm

What has puzzled me since the start of the milleneum is the new way people have of calling each year in this century so far. It used to be "nineteen-oh-seven", "fourteen-ninety-two" and so on. This century most people I know call it "two-thousand-seven" instead of "twenty-oh-seven" which seems like it should be the more standard way.
What term do you use to express the current year?
I wonder if things will go back to the old way by 2525? After all the song is, "In the year "twenty-five-twenty-five" not "In the year two-thousand-five-hundred-twenty-five".

BigDavy · Post by **BigDavy** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:05 pm

thought it was two thousand and eight

David

Bubbie · Post by **Bubbie** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:32 pm

BigDavy wrote:thought it was two thousand and eight

David

Ok you know what I meant.
I lost track of time in nineteen-sixty-nine.

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:49 pm

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Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:10 am

Two Thousand and Eight here in Yurp.

avanutria · Post by **avanutria** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:24 am

I think that once we hit 2010 and no longer have to say "twenty-oh-something" it will mostly revert back to the usual format that we saw before 2000.

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:22 am

Another two thousand and eight here. Which doesn't appear to be an option in your poll (even ignoring the specific year).

missy · Post by **missy** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:37 am

when talking, I'll say "oh-eight"
when writing, I'll usually write /08 or /2008 depending on what I'm writing (our database needs the 2008.

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:05 am

Duce aught naught eight.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:38 am

I kinda smear it out like this:
two-thowzin' eight

But I agree with avanutria. Once 2010 hits I'm reverting to the twenty-ten, twenty-eleven, etc, format.

chas · Post by **chas** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:31 am

I'm with everyone else.

I think some of the reason for the different wording is the way we say numbers. If there are 1908 somethings, most would say "nineteen hundred eight", whereas if there are 2008 somethings, people don't generally say "twenty hundred eight".

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:07 am

I say "aught-eight". As in, "Back in aught-eight, we didn't have transporter
machines, we had to drive all the way to school, uphill both ways."

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:55 am

chas wrote:I'm with everyone else.

I think some of the reason for the different wording is the way we say numbers. If there are 1908 somethings, most would say "nineteen hundred eight", whereas if there are 2008 somethings, people don't generally say "twenty hundred eight".

No. No no no no no.

It's like Chris and Bystander said: it's "nineteen hundred AND eight" and "two thousand AND eight".

What is it with you confounded ex-colonials and losing the "and".

To me, "nineteen hundred eight" is meaningless. It's not English. Kindly modify your practice accordingly.

pastorkeith · Post by **pastorkeith** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:53 pm

Like the choice - 1969 was a great year.
I was 4.
Lost track of time a lot back then roaming around on my bike
(can't remember if it had training wheels in 69) or playing with some cheap lego clone that I had by the thousands

pastorkeith

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