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Does anyone know how the current decade is referred to? The twenty-noughties?
Thanks for any ideas!
Thanks for any ideas!
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| 4 +7 | Noughties |
kmtext
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| 4 +4 | the early 2000s |
David Moore (X)
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| 4 +3 | the two thousands (2000s) |
Will Matter
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| 4 +1 | the current/present decade |
Robert Forstag
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| 4 +1 | First decade of the 21st century/ of the millennium |
Nesrin
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| 3 | the twenty-O's / ozies |
Bernhard Sulzer
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Mar 8, 2008 01:56: Cilian O'Tuama changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
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Noughties
That's all I've heard it called so far.
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Ewa Nowicka
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Mòran taing.
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PoveyTrans (X)
: yep // 's e do bheatha
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Mòran taing.
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Noni Gilbert Riley
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Mòran taing.
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Ellemiek Drucker
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Mòran taing.
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Christine Andersen
: Said to be in the Oxford dictionary: http://funnybusiness.typepad.com/funnybusiness/2004/09/d12k_... - and far better than evasions like 'this decade' or 'since the turn of the Millennium. What will we call the next decade - the teenies???
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Mòran taing. Technically, the teenies won't start till 2013, so does that mean we'll have the tweenies first? Time will tell. There are whole fora devoted to the subject!
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Vicky Nash
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Mòran taing.
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randam
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Mòran taing.
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Will Matter
: Not in the US. Never hear it, no one uses it and 'noughties' sounds to me like something I simply shouldn't do. However, I agree that this term is widely used elsewhere.
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I must admit it's not one I like myself, but it's catching on in the UK, but I haven't seen it in formal usage yet.
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Cilian O'Tuama
: the "too naughties"!? - I like "noughties", but understand the reservations. I'll try to change this to "pro" seeing as even the ENS don't agree.
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Gary D
: We say the 2,000's because the next is the 2,010's. I would never use the noughties, Because a Noughtie is what you do when you have sex.
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Buck
: I've heard this used, but only as slang
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Mihailolja
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Mòran taing.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Looks as though this is in pretty widespread use - at least in the UK/Ireland/Australia - and it would appear that "the 2000s" is the best solution when referring to other countries. Not quite such an easy question as I had imagined!"
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Robert Forstag
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the current/present decade
I myself have never heard "noughties" used, at least in the US, and one of these alternatives seem much more natural.
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the early 2000s
That's what I'm gonna call it until something remotely more adult comes up than "noughties" - how CHILDISH. Okay, watch that being confused with the "naughty nineties", if you don't believe me...
Logically, let's just take a look at yesterday. What do we call the first decades of the 20th. century? The early 1900s, possibly followed by the decade of the Great War. I certainly haven't heard them called anything else that I can remember, so why not follow that example? True, the 1900-1909 period may be called the "Edwardian era", but who outside of the UK would know when that was? Come to that, who, IN the UK would today know when that was??
Or have we all turned charlie - or childish?
Logically, let's just take a look at yesterday. What do we call the first decades of the 20th. century? The early 1900s, possibly followed by the decade of the Great War. I certainly haven't heard them called anything else that I can remember, so why not follow that example? True, the 1900-1909 period may be called the "Edwardian era", but who outside of the UK would know when that was? Come to that, who, IN the UK would today know when that was??
Or have we all turned charlie - or childish?
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William [Bill] Gray
: I think I agree with you here David, as far as serious texts go. But "noughties" is likely to appeal is certain environments!
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Thanks, Bill: that's guaranteed, isn't it...
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Clare Barnes
: Also with David for serious texts and those with a readership that's non-native/outside the UK.
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Nesrin
: How about "first decade of the ..th century/ millennium"
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May be longer than the asker was hoping, but it's worth a shot.
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Alexandra Tussing
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First decade of the 21st century/ of the millennium
I agree with David as well, but thought this deserves a separate suggestion.
Examples from the internet:
OECD Environmental Strategy for the First Decade of the 21st Century ww.oecd.org/dataoecd/33/40/1863539.pdf
... unvarnished view of its own past as far back as the dark ages of the first decade of the 21st Century, when recorded history "really" began. ...
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6287126.stm
... and over 100,000 more!
Examples from the internet:
OECD Environmental Strategy for the First Decade of the 21st Century ww.oecd.org/dataoecd/33/40/1863539.pdf
... unvarnished view of its own past as far back as the dark ages of the first decade of the 21st Century, when recorded history "really" began. ...
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6287126.stm
... and over 100,000 more!
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Will Matter
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the two thousands (2000s)
This is the only numerical type of term that I've heard used here except for just "the 21st century". HTH.
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Cilian O'Tuama
: problem is, it'll need a different name in2 years :-)
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The twenty tens, for the decade, followed by the twenty twenties.
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Alexandra Tussing
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Thank you.
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Gary D
: it will be the 2,010's in 2 years. In Australia we will proberly shorten it to the 20/10's (twenty tens), Why? Because we like to shorten things.
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Thanks. US has the same outlook on it.
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Jack Dunwell
: Getting away from the jokes, this is logical, but might it last 100 years?
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Hard to say. Thank you for the agree.
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Bernhard Sulzer
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the twenty-O's / ozies
just if you were looking to continue as begun (depends on your context) - certainly options not used that much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s
ōzies, and the Twenty-O's, from the practice of calling the number zero 'O'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s
ōzies, and the Twenty-O's, from the practice of calling the number zero 'O'
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