here's the real question for 2010, and you have to make up your mind quick
is it "twenty ten" or "two thousand ten?"
my daughter informed me that if i say "twenty ten" she will be too embarrassed to talk to me in public.
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i say two thousand ten
Jessica
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twenty ten
~Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble.~
Totally twenty ten.
We didn't say one thousand nine hundrend ninety nine.
Twenty zero nine was awkward and didn't really make sense.
Two thousand ten ends up coming out of most people's mouths like, "two thousand N ten" which sounds Sarah Palen-ish.
Not that I've given it any thought 
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I dunno. I think twenty ten sounds kinda stupid. I think I'm with Lil' Filth. Two thousand and ten is what I'll be saying. It's more within my comfort range.
... only because we couldn't say twenty nine or twenty oh nine without it sounding odd.
To-may- to, to- mah- to.
think of all the collective time we'll save by saying twenty-ten. 2 syllables each time, about a second, times millions (billions??) of mentions a day- we could cure cancer or solve global warming with that time. Or upload a few more pictures to our facebook profiles.
already saying twenty ten. i think i've been waiting to have the taste of 'the future' on my tongue for quite some time.
Ha! I had this moment at work today where I said twenty ten to a customer and realized how weird it sounded but I did it b/c it was faster to say. So probably will go with twenty ten. More concise.
Because it was a portentious mythical future year in my childhood thinking and i always thought of it as 2 thousand 10, no changing that now.
Tigerfish Mama
Twenty-ten.
Here's why: it's parallel to the MAJORITY of years that we say.
1910: nineteen-ten.
1952: nineteen fifty-two, not one thousand nineteen hundred fifty-two.
I know, two thousand ten is parallel to the previous nine years. But those are odd cases, because saying 2009 as twenty-nine makes it sound like, well, 29, and saying it as twenty-oh-nine isn't any kind of number at all unless you're maybe reading the last four digits of a phone number.
In the bigger picture, twenty-ten is more copacetic with the rest of the years.
/end linguistic commentary.
25/MN and WA. Queer, veg, single, AP mama to DD2.5.
aught 10 there ya go
The Year of Our Lord, One Thousand and Ten. In Latin, maybe?
But there's the whole Lord part, which might make it iffy for ya.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. -- Emily Dickinson
You want to do what you think is right and what matters to you, and if other people don't like it, as my father would have said, they can go fuck themselves. -- Amy Bloom
M to the M to the X to the future? that's what I'M gonna call it.
just kidding.
how about '010?
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that's the question. i find it hard to believe they said "ten ten," i'd be willing to bet that those who knew what year it was said "one thousand ten."
before 2010 i liked saying aught-nine, aught-seven. if i can find out what they said in 1010 and say that i'd be so cool.