What do we call the years from now on?

[pembo]

So what will we call the years after New Years Eve 2009?

For that last few years everyone seems to have been referring to them as the noughty's, before that we had the ninety's and the eighty's and so on. But what happens next, the tenty's sounds mental, the teenie's is far too similar to a multi-coloured childrens programme and doesn't work at all with the first 3 years.

It's been a bit of a discussion at work this morning so I thought I'd present you all with the task of deciding how we should refer to the next 10 years after the end of this one.

It's coming up fast and we need to know what era we are going to be living in........

[bob1179]

The early 21st Century.

I'm still waiting for my hover car and Jaws 23 hasn't come out yet either.

[WorAl]

first 3 years not sure (2010, 2011, 2012) but from then on surely it will be the teens?

[Charlie Foxtrot]

bob1179 said:

The early 21st Century.

I'm still waiting for my hover car and Jaws 23 hasn't come out yet either.

not long now until mr fusion either.

[Neil_H]

The tens. The twenties. The thirties. The fourties. The fifties. The sixties. The seventies. The eighties. The nineties.

[bonsai]

You could ask mybrainhurts what they did last time round?

[ShadownINja]

But we've already had the nineties.

[Bill]

pembo said:

noughty's

And whoever thought of that deserves shooting (And it should be noughties.)



They'll be the Teens. Nought, plural noughties; ninety, plural nineties; teen, plural teens.

Easy

[The Legend mk 2]

The teenies

[MikeCR]

Hell.

[madala]

What do we call the years from now on?

.....how about "shoite".... 'cos that's what the next few years are going to be after the fiasco of Blair and Brown.....

[Neil_H]

Bill said:

pembo said:

noughty's

And whoever thought of that deserves shooting (And it should be noughties.)



They'll be the Teens. Nought, plural noughties; ninety, plural nineties; teen, plural teens.

Easy

It's the tens, not the teens.

[Bing o]

Neil_H said:

The tens. The twenties. The thirties. The fourties. The fifties. The sixties. The seventies. The eighties. The nineties.

This.

[BoRED S2upid]

The poverty years

The Decade of debt

[Bill]

Neil_H said:

It's the tens, not the teens.

That makes sense, certainly, but it'll probably be a tabloid journalist that decides

[cottonfoo]

Bill said:

Neil_H said:

It's the tens, not the teens.

That makes sense, certainly, but it'll probably be a tabloid journalist that decides

These days it'll be some "blogger". Tens is correct.

[davido140]

ShadownINja said:

But we've already had the nineties.

Dont worry, none of us will be around to complain about it being "better the first time around"

[pembo]

cottonfoo said:

Bill said:

Neil_H said:

It's the tens, not the teens.

That makes sense, certainly, but it'll probably be a tabloid journalist that decides

These days it'll be some "blogger". Tens is correct.

Thats what I thought might happen so if we get it started now and we can come to a decision between the great minds of correctness and grammar that reside on pistonheads we might stop this happening.

It seems that everyone has their own opinion though and it will take a damned good explanation to decide what is really 'correct'

[dirty boy]

tenties

[fatboy b]

The recovery years?

Being optimistic of coourse

Edited by fatboy b on Thursday 12th November 12:33