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What should we call the decade after the noughties?


What should we call the decade that just ended?

The name that will probably win out, rather prosaically, is the “Twenty-tens,” which for now outstrips any of the others in Google searches.

If from 2000 to 2009 is named the noughties, what is 2010 to 2019 ...

0-9 is the noughties, 10-19 is the teens, 20-29 is the twenties, and so on. Right now, it is still early for the decade to be referred to as the ...

What should we call the decade after the noughties? - Mirror Online

As the decade known as the noughties ends, what nickname can we give the next 10 years? ... As the decade known as the noughties ends, what ...

What are the '00s and the '10s decades called? - Quora

The aughts or 00s is the first decade of a century. For instance, it will be 2000–2010 will be the first decade or aught of 2000s. '10s are ...

If you have the 70s, 80s and 90s, what do you call 2000 - 2019?

2000-09 is well known as the noughties, 2013-19 is the teenies, leaving 2010-12 as the inbetweenies. · I thought we were in the noughties.

Seventies,eighties,nineties and noughties ... but what next??

So as this decade next year draws to a close it got me thinking what will they name the next decade , which in my opnion is the hardest one of the bunch to make ...

In the noughties - twenty-teens [decades 2000-2010 and 2010-2020]

What do people say for the decade from 2010 to now? I suppose we will know when it is finished, after 2020. 'In the tens'?

How do i define short decades for 2000 and 2010? [duplicate]

In the English-speaking world, a name for the 2000-2009 decade was never universally accepted in the same manner as for decades such as the ...

Nineties, noughties, ? - Datawrapper Blog

“They're called the noughties,” said Ivan. I was pleased with this new piece of information. It sounded strange enough. “And how do we call the ...

2000 (the decade) | WordReference Forums

2010 is the start of the next decade. ... 2000-2009 ---> the noughties, the 2000s ??? 2010-2019 ---> ???? (I have never heard anyone refer to this ...

How'll we refer to the 2000s? | Antimoon Forum

We know other decades as the seventies, the eighties, the nineties... ... - the two thousands? - the naughts/naughties? - the o's? Brennus ...

2000s - Wikipedia

The 2000s (pronounced "two-thousands"; shortened to the '00s and known as the aughts or noughties) was a decade that began on January 1, 2000, and ended on ...

What should we call the decade that started in the year 2000?

But the most common terms include the aughts (also spelled oughts) and the noughts—a logical extension of the fact that Americans living at the ...

After 10 years of Noughtiness, what's next?

Despite the obstacle, Make Communications creative director Rem Bruijn said his money was on the "Teens" or "Teenies" as the popular choice to ...

Decades - Pain in the English

but of course, living in the century for more than a decade already, i think it would be save for everyone to just say "tens". but when they would refer to a ...

What Do You Call It? | The New Yorker

Arguably, a grudging agreement has been reached on calling the decade “the aughts,” but that unfortunate term is rooted in a linguistic error.

Why Do We Call the 2000s “the Aughts”? - Mental Floss

The aughts was suggested because of those '00s: Aught (or ought) means “zero,” and it's a corruption of the older word naught, which dates all the way back to ...

Why can't we name this decade? - The Week

Why can't we name this decade? · 1. The Zippy Zeros: "That is only a working title." (The New York Times, 1989) · 2. The Ohs: "It passes the out-loud test." (NYT, ...

Our Nameless Decade: What "Aught" We Call It? - OUP Blog

Abbreviating “the 2000s” as “the '00s” only makes matters worse, since it's entirely unclear how the two-digit form should be pronounced.

Finally, a Decade Whose Name We Can Agree On - Washingtonian

Image via iStock. ... As the '90s approached, New York Times language columnist William Safire polled his readers about how we should refer to a ...