Happy New Year!

[ellarien]

Now, what shall we call it? I find that "Twenty-Ten" is growing on me, but I still have Enya in the back of my head, singing jauntily, "Might be Two Thousand and Ten." (Talk about songs with a limited shelf life ...)

Also, It's going to be a challenge to design the New Year spectacle frames next year. Maybe the 0 as one lens and the two 1s flanking the other one?

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

The BBC newsreaders have, apparently, settled on "twenty-ten" which is what I was saying anyway.

[ellarien]

I think CNN was still saying "two thousand ..." in the preliminary festivities; I haven't caught them committing one way or the other this morning.

My private mental pronunciation has been "Two-kay-[number]" since 2000, but that's a physics-student joke.

[ellarien]

I think part of the problem I'm having with the shift is seeing the juxtaposition of 2009 and 2010. I never thought of 2009 as "twenty-oh-nine," but seeing it next to "twenty-ten" I find myself wanting to. Or it flips the other way ...

(Yes, I hear/pronounce words in my head when I read!)

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Happy new year. We (in Canada) have been talking about the "twenty-ten" olympics for a long while now, so it seems natural to continue.

[ellarien]

Come to think of it, I believe the British talk about the "Twenty-twelve" Olympics, too. I just hadn't thought about it until the other day, and now I'm trying to make the mental adjustment.