Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grammar. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

2000-10 or 20-10? I win!

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.