Is next year Two-thousand-and-ten or Twenty-ten?
Who gets to decide?
I imagine that the Nineteen Hundreds were never referred to as One-thousand-nine-hundred-and...
Possibly for the past one thousand years, all of the centuries through the teens were spoken in double digits. Entering a new millennia has given us an opportunity to contemplate how we will speak and write our period of time that will reflect our own era.
As I mentioned previously - Who gets to decide?
Will it be advertisers and the like? Or someone with a formal degree? Someone voted into a position of office? Will it be from movies and television? Who will influence something with such long-term effect?
The Vancouver Olympics taking place in 2010 are officially being referred to as the 'twenty-ten Olympics'. The London Olympics taking place in 2012 is officially known as the 'twenty-twelve Olympics'.
However, the 2010 Rose Bowl Game is being referred to as 'two thousand ten'.
So..who gets to decide?
6 comments:
We're saying 'twenty-ten' although I'm not sure who decided that that's what we'd say!
I never really thought about it.
I hear the twenty Ten thing but have been reffering to the New Year as Two Thousand Ten.
I must be old school
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hmmm...interesting thoughts.
No idea. My CEO has called Twenty Oh Ten... got a lot of laughs and ribbing for it too.
I have called it two thousand and ten...and have said that it will be a wonderful year because it is an even number.
(it doesn't have to make sense...just go with it!):o)
I hear the twenty Ten thing but have been reffering to the New Year as Two Thousand Ten.
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