Silly question about the years...

So I was thinking, we had the seventies, the eighties, and the nineties.
What are the years '00 - 09 called? The zeros?

Also, what are the years '10 - '19 called?

Something to ponder...

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good question and now this will be stuck in my head

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I think people tend to call it the two thousands.....

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will, 10-19 are referred to as teens...
I would imagine people saying Zero One or O1...not sure what the term is

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Posted by vmystique33

good question and now this will be stuck in my head

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I was actually wondering the same thing the other day

Like now, the cars are referred to as an 08 (oh-eight) or an 09, but when it's a car made in 2010, will it be a (for example) 10 Hyundai Sonata?

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i think the expression is "ought (number)"
in referring to the the early 20th century for example 1901 was "ought 1" for short

i guess we would do the same for 2001-2009??

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from wikipedia:

Names of the decade
In contrast to the decades from 1920 to 1999, which are called "the Twenties", "the Sixties", and the like, the decade beginning in 2000 has no universally accepted name. Some refer to the decade as the "twenty hundreds" while others may refer to it as the "two thousands". In written form, this could appear as "the '00s" or "the 2000s". But writing "the 2000s" or simply saying "the two-thousands" can cause confusion, since this could refer to the entire 21st century or even the entire millennium.

Determining a name for the decade has been problematic, especially in the United States. In 1999, anticipating the upcoming awkwardness, a U.S. group calling itself "Project Naughtie" ran a viral campaign in an attempt to popularize "the Naughties" as the decade's name.[4] The term involves a clear play on words, stemming both from the idea that naught means "nothing" or "zero" and the fact that naughties sounds both like nineties and naughty. A limited number of the media have made some use of the term as well, including the BBC (although adopting a more traditional spelling based upon nought).[5][6] Both spellings have gained some currency among the legitimate press in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia, but there still remains no consensus on what term to use. Even the decades' trend tracking VH-1 has opted to not take any sides, calling their new show on the decade, "I Love the New Millennium".[7]

Other proposed names include:

aughts, aughties, and double-aughts, from aught,[8] which, like naught, means "zero" (aughts was one of the more popular terms in the early 20th century)
nils and nillies, from nil, meaning "nothing"
2Ks, from the Greek term khilioi, meaning "thousand"
ozies and the Twenty-Os, from the practice of calling the number zero "O"
zeroes, double zeroes, oh-zeroes, ohs, double ohs, oh-ohs, and twenty ohs
The United Nations General Assembly has declared the decade of 2001–2010 the "International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World

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Wow, apparently even wikipedia has been up thinking about this as well

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Message edited 12/3/2008 10:11:46 PM.