2019: Twenty-nineteen or Two thousand-nineteen?

monster · 11-16-2019, 07:33 PM

How do you say 2019? And where do you live?

Everyone here says two thousand nineteen, but it's kind of awkward. I note that anything British I hear is 20-19.

I hope to hell we can all say 20-20 -two-thousand-twenty would probably do me in.

And will George Benson's 1985 hit re-enter the charts?

xoxoxoBruce · 11-16-2019, 11:22 PM

Twenty twenty for sure.

Carruthers · 11-17-2019, 04:45 AM

Another vote for twenty-twenty.

That said, the dire local radio station Mix96 was playing in the waiting area at the health centre when I was there with Dad earlier this week.

The traffic and travel bod came on and referred to the A4010 (a local road) as the forty-ten. Has a similar effect to the scraping of finger nails on a blackboard.

I've only ever heard it spoken as 'A four oh one oh'.

sexobon · 11-17-2019, 07:55 AM

twentytwin

Clodfobble · 11-17-2019, 09:48 AM

I go back and forth depending on what flows better in the sentence, like "data" and "data."

sexobon · 11-17-2019, 09:55 AM

OK

twentyditto

sexobon · 11-17-2019, 10:06 AM

XXXX, Clod.

sexobon · 11-17-2019, 11:03 AM

I won't be using MMXX at all.

DanaC · 11-17-2019, 02:02 PM

I've heard both around me and on tv. I mainly say twenty nineteen.

Gravdigr · 11-17-2019, 02:54 PM

Kentucky.

What? Urrbody else just answered half the questions, I just chose the other half.

sexobon · 11-17-2019, 03:13 PM

Kentucky Colonel says Too-Zeero-Wun-Niner.

Griff · 11-18-2019, 06:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

How do you say 2019? And where do you live?

Everyone here says two thousand nineteen, but it's kind of awkward. I note that anything British I hear is 20-19.

I hope to hell we can all say 20-20 -two-thousand-twenty would probably do me in.

And will George Benson's 1985 hit re-enter the charts?

It's 20-19 hereabouts. I'm rooting 20-20.

Spexxvet · 11-18-2019, 08:24 AM

1920 was nineteen twenty, so 2020 must be twenty twenty. Can you see it? Is it clear? Which is better, two thousand twenty or twenty twenty. Sorry - Optical humor

Delco

lumberjim · 11-18-2019, 09:44 AM

Yeah, cuz twenty twenty is already in the lexicon as it relates to vision, so that's what people will say. I think I mostly say two thousand nineteen this year... Or just '19.

glatt · 11-18-2019, 11:00 AM

1901 was obviously "nineteen-oh-one" because it was too hard to say "one thousand nine hundred oh one"

But in 2001, we said "two thousand one" because "twenty oh-one" sounded weird and didn't save us any syllables. Plus there was that movie, and it was pronounced "two thousand one" which got us in the habit decades ago. And we've just continued the nomenclature. Once we hit 2010 we should have switched over to "twenty ten" but inertia had set in.

I'm expecting us to switch to "twenty" instead of "two thousand" in 2020 even though there is nothing that makes 2020 special numerically. My son graduates in 2020, and his whole graduating class has been referring to it as "twenty-twenty" since he was a freshman 4 years ago. So I bet we all make the switch then if we haven't already.

11-16-2019, 07:33 PM	#1
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	2019: Twenty-nineteen or Two thousand-nineteen? How do you say 2019? And where do you live? Everyone here says two thousand nineteen, but it's kind of awkward. I note that anything British I hear is 20-19. I hope to hell we can all say 20-20 -two-thousand-twenty would probably do me in. And will George Benson's 1985 hit re-enter the charts? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

11-16-2019, 11:22 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Twenty twenty for sure. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

11-17-2019, 04:45 AM	#3
Carruthers Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Buckinghamshire UK Posts: 4,059	Another vote for twenty-twenty. That said, the dire local radio station Mix96 was playing in the waiting area at the health centre when I was there with Dad earlier this week. The traffic and travel bod came on and referred to the A4010 (a local road) as the forty-ten. Has a similar effect to the scraping of finger nails on a blackboard. I've only ever heard it spoken as 'A four oh one oh'. __________________

11-17-2019, 09:48 AM	#5
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	I go back and forth depending on what flows better in the sentence, like "data" and "data." __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

11-17-2019, 02:54 PM	#10
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11-17-2019, 07:55 AM	#4
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	twentytwin

11-17-2019, 09:55 AM	#6
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	OK twentyditto

11-17-2019, 10:06 AM	#7
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	XXXX, Clod.

11-17-2019, 11:03 AM	#8
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	I won't be using MMXX at all.

11-17-2019, 03:13 PM	#11
sexobon I love it when a plan comes together. Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 9,793	Kentucky Colonel says Too-Zeero-Wun-Niner.

11-18-2019, 08:24 AM	#13
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	1920 was nineteen twenty, so 2020 must be twenty twenty. Can you see it? Is it clear? Which is better, two thousand twenty or twenty twenty. Sorry - Optical humor Delco __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

11-18-2019, 09:44 AM	#14
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	Yeah, cuz twenty twenty is already in the lexicon as it relates to vision, so that's what people will say. I think I mostly say two thousand nineteen this year... Or just '19. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

11-18-2019, 11:00 AM	#15
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	1901 was obviously "nineteen-oh-one" because it was too hard to say "one thousand nine hundred oh one" But in 2001, we said "two thousand one" because "twenty oh-one" sounded weird and didn't save us any syllables. Plus there was that movie, and it was pronounced "two thousand one" which got us in the habit decades ago. And we've just continued the nomenclature. Once we hit 2010 we should have switched over to "twenty ten" but inertia had set in. I'm expecting us to switch to "twenty" instead of "two thousand" in 2020 even though there is nothing that makes 2020 special numerically. My son graduates in 2020, and his whole graduating class has been referring to it as "twenty-twenty" since he was a freshman 4 years ago. So I bet we all make the switch then if we haven't already.

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