POTD: English pronunciation of 2010

[Travis]

Because this is a stupid debate that's why. Both are perfectly acceptable; it has to do with saving syllables, not because it was a standard set in the nineteen hundreds that is mandatory to continue following.

IT'S ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY AND IT ALWAYS WILL SO SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH

[Samus Aran]

Because this is a stupid debate that's why. Both are perfectly acceptable; it has to do with saving syllables, not because it was a standard set in the nineteen hundreds that is mandatory to continue following.

i do agree that it's stupid

i just found your amount of cursing to be humorous

[C.Mongler]

i do agree that it's stupid

i just found your amount of cursing to be humorous

i know, i was flustered 

[Selkie]

People only call it two thousand ten because they are used to using that format for the past 9 years (10 including 2000).

Now that we can say twenty- _______ again, we should.

We just couldn't the past 10 years cause you can't say twenty-nine, twenty-five, etc.

[Samus Aran]

People only call it two thousand ten because they are used to using that format for the past 9 years (10 including 2000).

Now that we can say twenty- _______ again, we should.

We just couldn't the past 10 years cause you can't say twenty-nine, twenty-five, etc.

twenty-aught-nine

[Mando Pandango]

twenty-aught-nine

twenty-oh-nine

You wouldn't say "nineteen nine" either, you would say "nineteen oh nine"

[Samus Aran]

twenty-oh-nine

You wouldn't say "nineteen nine" either, you would say "nineteen oh nine"

aught sounds cooler to me

though, realistically, i'm sure it would be twenty-oh-nine

[The artist formally known]

Who gives a shit, barely anyone know how to use grammar and no one knows that "alot" is not a word

[Mando Pandango]

Who gives a shit, barely anyone know how to use grammar and no one knows that "alot" is not a word

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html

[Nyerp]

years don't rly exist anyway so who cares!

[Samus Aran]

and no one knows that "alot" is not a word

i do

[Thyme]

i do

I confuse it with allot.

Not on usage, just on hearing it.

[Nyerp]

I confuse it with allot.

Not on usage, just on hearing it.

wow really

"allot" is not a very common word

[Classic]

Two thousand ten. :'(

[Lozal]

Two thousand and ten.