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What year is it?

How do you pronounce the year?

It's Two Thousand Six, and in four years it'll be Two Thousand Ten.	15 votes
It's Two Thousand Six, and in four years it'll be Twenty Ten.	4 votes
It's Twenty Oh Six, and in four years it'll be Twenty Ten.	1 votes
Other. (Please specify.)	3 votes

Yancy Street Gang Aug 03 2006 04:56 PM

How do you pronounce the year?

sharpie Aug 03 2006 05:04 PM

I'm more likely to say "oh-six" than anything else but if I need to differentiate between 1906 and 2006 then I'd say "two thousand six." But, I promise you, it will be twenty-ten, twenty-eleven, twenty-twelve and so on. The only people who will be saying "two thousand fifteen" and so forth are the same people who said "nineteen hundred and sixty-nine."

seawolf17 Aug 03 2006 05:23 PM

"Oh" ain't a number. Two thousand six. I might switch to "twenty-ten" as it gets closer, but right now I say "two-thousand-ten."

TransMonk Aug 03 2006 05:29 PM

I'm with seawolf on this one.

Elster88 Aug 03 2006 05:35 PM

seawolf17 wrote: "Oh" ain't a number. Two thousand six. I might switch to "twenty-ten" as it gets closer, but right now I say "two-thousand-ten." Me too.

KC Aug 03 2006 05:57 PM

I took number one, but I don't find twenty-ten to be wrong. They had strong shit in the 60's ... In the year 2525 If man is still alive. If woman can survive, they may find. In the year 3535 Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies. Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today. In the year 4545 Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes. You won't find a thing to chew. Nobody's gonna look at you. In the year 5555 Your arms hanging limp at your sides. Your legs got nothing to do. Some machine doing that for you. In the year 6565 Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife. You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too. From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh In the year 7510 If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then. Maybe he'll look around himself and say. Guess it's time for the judgment day. In the year 8510 God is gonna shake his mighty head. He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been. Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh In the year 9595 I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive. He's taken everything this old Earth can give. And he ain't put back nothing.Whoa-oh Now it's been ten thousand years Man has cried a billion tears. For what he never knew, now man's reign is through. But through eternal night. The twinkling of starlight. So very far away. Maybe it's only yesterday. In the year 2525 If man is still alive. If woman can survive, they may find. In the year 3535 {fade}

Nymr83 Aug 03 2006 06:24 PM

The year is 5766.

Gwreck Aug 03 2006 06:28 PM

I really hate the idea of "twenty ten" or "twenty fifteen" etc. Way too awkward.

Elster88 Aug 03 2006 08:32 PM

="Gwreck"]I really hate the idea of "twenty ten" or "twenty fifteen" etc. Way too awkward. Is it really that different from saying "nineteen fifteen"? How do you say a house number like that? 2015 Court St. I say "twenty fifteen Court Street."

Nymr83 Aug 03 2006 09:33 PM

maybe that Newdow clown (the guy who sued to have them stop saying the pledge of allegiance in schools and is now suing again to have "in god we trust" removed from our money) can sue to have the government stop counting time from the death of Jesus Christ, and instead we can count time from the declaration of independence or the constitution.

soupcan Aug 03 2006 10:54 PM

]It's Two Thousand Six, and in four years it'll be Two Thousand Ten

cooby Aug 03 2006 11:14 PM

I can't wait until Twenty Ten so you nine people will see that you are wrong

Elster88 Aug 03 2006 11:20 PM

I'm changing my vote. Maybe not 2010, but in 2011 I will definitely be saying "twenty eleven". I like my house number analogy. When there are four numbers in a house they are spoken as two two-digit numbers.

Rockin' Doc Aug 03 2006 11:44 PM

I went with the first option.

metsmarathon Aug 04 2006 12:01 AM

my mom is still getting used to the whole idea of a new millenia. she says "two oh oh six" and sometimes "two zero zero six" i've tried to convince her that its "two thousand six" but she's stubborn.

Willets Point Aug 31 2006 02:41 PM

It's twenty OUGHT six.

MFS62 Aug 31 2006 02:44 PM

I usually use two thousand six, but sometimes use two thousand and six. 5766 works, too. LOL! Later

Yancy Street Gang Aug 31 2006 02:59 PM

="Willets Point"]It's twenty OUGHT six. I've never heard anybody say that.

MFS62 Aug 31 2006 03:04 PM

="Yancy Street Gang"] ="Willets Point"]It's twenty OUGHT six. I've never heard anybody say that. You're right. I used to hear people say that when I was a kid. And the only place you might hear it these days is in old western movies. WP, just exactly how old are you? Later

ScarletKnight41 Aug 31 2006 03:13 PM

I missed this the first time around - I was in St. Louis at the time. Two Thousand and Six. Two Thousand and Ten.

Willets Point Aug 31 2006 03:49 PM

="MFS62"] ="Yancy Street Gang"] ="Willets Point"]It's twenty OUGHT six. I've never heard anybody say that. You're right. I used to hear people say that when I was a kid. And the only place you might hear it these days is in old western movies. WP, just exactly how old are you? Later Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. Now get the hell off my lawn!