Name the first two 10-year periods starting in year 2000 1

[ESquared]

If the years 1990 - 1999 are collectively, The Nineteen-Nineties (or The Nineties or The '90s as you prefer), then what do we call the years 2000 - 2009 and 2010 to 2019?

The Twenty-Oughts and the Twenty-Teens?

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[jwenting]

Last I checked only 1 decade started in 2000, not 2
And that one started in 2001 depending on how you define decades.

 

[jwenting]

I propose to call the current decade "the Teens", after the mental age of the average member of world society (irrespective of physical age) during this decade.

 

[sleipnir214]

Were the nicknames for the decades in the 20th century in use during the decades that were being described, or did these names come later?


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[dreibelbis]

I just like the O's or "oooooooooohs"...........
y'all gave me a headache with all your analyzations! I think that somewhere down the line, people as a whole will go back & say some word/phrase that will kind of take on the meaning of these O's...........(I know, that's a letter "O", not a number 0 zero)........in fact, I bet it will be my son's generation to come up with something.......they're the ones growing up in it.......of course, I really don't like being called a "gen-x"-er either............
ok, enough about that.......
oh yeah........isn't this decade 2001 to 2010???????

 

[ESquared]

Yes, this decade is 2001 to 2010. But I was not referring to proper decades! That is why I said the somewhat awkward "first two 10-year periods" instead of "first two decades."

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[sha76]

Isn't a decade just a ten year period? The first decade of this millenium would be 2001 to 2010, but the decade starting in 2000 is surely an equally valid use of the word.

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[ESquared]

sha76,

I see that you are correct, 2000 to 2009 is a decade.I think it's just not one of the generally accepted 'official' decades of a millennium, such those meant when someone says "the first decade of this millennium" or "this decade."

I could have used decennium, instead!

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[PennyB]

These are the Twenty-Hundreds"

Yes, but that describes the century, not 10 years of it...

I vote for the naughties too

Penny

 

[flapeyre]

Here is a column by Cecil Adams on the subject (from back in the 90's).

De mortuis nihil nisi bonum.

 

[LesleyW]

Interesting that we seem to have naturally solved the second dilema - how to say 2000, 2001 as years. People seem to have no problem with "The year two thousand" or just "In two thousand, I was doing quite well, but in oh one, things started to go downhill".

 

[jerryreeve]

I have to disagree with calling the year two thousand one with oh-one, I guess that since I am not a programming engineer I start counting with one and not zero, even with that in mind I am fairly sure that "the naughties" will prevail as history.

(Maybe Heinlein's "the Crazy years" will be the end designation)

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