Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

Pain in the English
Pain in the English

Unpacking English, Bit by Bit

A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.

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rdwald

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March 18, 2003

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Decades

  • March 18, 2003, 4:44pm

Personally, I refer to individual years as 2K2 or 2K3 (pronounced "two-kay-two," etc.). Correspondingly, I refer to the decade as the 2Ks. I'm pretty sure that the next few decades will be twenty-tens or twenty-twenties, until we get used to the new century and can refer to only the decade.

Of course, the Noughts works fine as well.