My wife and I had a little discussion the other night about how to say the current year, 2010. I say twenty-ten and she says that it's two-thousand ten. She claims it takes the same amount of time to say (I disagree) and follows two-thousand and nine more logically.
As a married man, I guess I should just relent and thank her for setting me right :-) But... I have documents to prove my point...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/01/MN621BB41U.DTL
http://www.esquire.com/features/funny-slang-language-dictionary/how-to-pronounce-2010-1109
http://askville.amazon.com/pronounce-year-2010-2038/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=11224744
http://gawker.com/5438854/great-debates-how-should-we-pronounce-2010
But I guess in the end both of us will have to hear the other's pronunciation all year long... at least until twenty-eleven.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
2000-10 or 20-10? I win!
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Twenty-oh-nine plus one
Are you kidding me? Now you have to go and do your best to prove me wrong in this BLOG???
You are unbelievable (and don't take that other than I intend it and you KNOW how I intend it!)
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