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View Poll Results: How will you refer to the New Year?

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  • Two Thousand Ten

    41 34.45%
  • Twenty-Ten

    70 58.82%
  • Another nomenclature

    8 6.72%
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    Twenty-Ten or Two Thousand Ten?

    So how are the fine folks here on XMarksTheScot going to refer to the new year? Will you refer to it as Twenty-Ten, will it be Two Thousand Ten, or something else?
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    ..."Eighteen-ten," "Nineteen-ten" and now "Twenty-ten"... for the next nine decades the current year will roll trippingly off the tongue!

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    "twenty-ten", sort of like "ten-sixty-six"...

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    Mmx ..........

    Okay what's going on...I type M M X without the spaces and the machine changes the last two to lower case...doesn't it think I know what I want to type....quartz should be sand on a beach...
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    Twenty Ten. The year for Scotland to shine once again
    It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom -- for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.

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    Twenty-ten for me, until I forget and call it Two thousand ten!

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    "twenty-ten", sort of like "ten-sixty-six"...
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    I think it will become "twenty-nn" when there are more syllables in the second half of the year.

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    Interesting question. Back in ninety nine, I was sure we would be calling the next year the "double aught". Then aught one, aught two, etc. Never happened. I did from time to time refer to years in the decade that way, and got blank stares.

    What I head from others was two thousand and then the number. I think that will continue with most. But twenty ten has a nice ring. We'll see.

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    I don't care as long as you don't call it two-ten, like some woman on the radio did the other day. I'm sorry, but that was 800 years ago!

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