Shouldn't we be saying twenty ten and not two thousand ten? I mean this year is really twenty o nine, not two thousand nine. Think back to our past. 1996 was nineteen ninety six not nineteen hundred ninety six.

I think the movie 2001 A Space Odyessy messed us up on how to state a particular year. It should have been Twenty O One A Space Odyessy.

 

True but then in 2000 you would have had to say twenty zero zero

 

Totally agree that all the 00 years have been called differently. 1900 was nineteen hundred and so on. But when we hit 2001 it should have been twenty o one. But I think I'm correct on that movie changing how we call the years.

 

Wonder what they said in 894? Eight Ninety Four or Eight Hundred Ninety Four.

 

I think they spoke Latin back then.

 

No matter the language it would still have the same difference

 

Someone has a lot of time on their hands....

Don't worry, in 2110, it'll be back to "Twenty one ten..."

Won't it???

Mo

 

An example from The Bill of Rights of it written out:

"The Bill of Rights: A Transcription

The Preamble to The Bill of Rights

Congress of the United States
begun and held at the City of New-York, on
Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine."

Hmmm.

 

Interesting... I've always wondered what it would be called even years before the new millennium!

 

Well all I can say is I am buying a new twenty ten vehicle, not a two thousand and ten.

Which is what got me to pondering this question.