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Poll Question: How do you say 2015 when you speak?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2015 at 22:36
Most people switched to twenty this decade, but I didn't for a while.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 12 2015 at 23:25
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2015 at 01:39
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2015 at 03:42
Option #3; sometimes, when this one sounds too formal to my ears, #1.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2015 at 07:50
Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

Originally posted by bloodnarfer bloodnarfer wrote:

I tried to get twenty oh-nine to catch on but it never happened...


I've been trying since twenty hundred.  I first heard it on the BBC when a Radio 4 announcer referred to the year as "twenty-oh-three"
Reminds me of things from last century of an uncertain age being described as dating from "nineteen-oh-blimey".

I'm language-lazy when speaking even though I'm overly verbose in writing. 20-15 is shorter and easier to say than any of the tongue-twisting alternatives. 

I would be looking forward to the time when we can drop the "20" all together without the confusion of which century we're talking about, but alas I fear I shall not live that long. Like when did '68 mean 1968 and not 1868 or 1768, and when will it mean 2068?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2015 at 07:59
Twenty-fifteen.  It only makes sense after the last century being "nineteen-eighty-five" or whatever.

In the olden days people would say 1905 as "nineteen-aught-five" - indeed, Clutch have a song called " '05 " which is pronounced "aught-five".  I tried to popularize "twenty-aught-whatever" but it didn't catch on.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2015 at 08:10
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Stool Man Stool Man wrote:

Originally posted by bloodnarfer bloodnarfer wrote:

I tried to get twenty oh-nine to catch on but it never happened...


I've been trying since twenty hundred.  I first heard it on the BBC when a Radio 4 announcer referred to the year as "twenty-oh-three"
Reminds me of things from last century of an uncertain age being described as dating from "nineteen-oh-blimey".

I'm language-lazy when speaking even though I'm overly verbose in writing. 20-15 is shorter and easier to say than any of the tongue-twisting alternatives. 

I would be looking forward to the time when we can drop the "20" all together without the confusion of which century we're talking about, but alas I fear I shall not live that long. Like when did '68 mean 1968 and not 1868 or 1768, and when will it mean 2068?


When people able to remember the 20th century will be a minority, I guess.
In 2068, I would be 90 years old. I'm not sure I would like to live in a world where younglings would say: "it was in three-eight" for talking about the year 2038. Stern Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2015 at 10:48
Ever since first January, I have found pronouncing it 2015 has been more than sufficient
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2015 at 14:14
Seriously...? A poll on how one says 2015...?
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2015 at 17:11
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Seriously...? A poll on how one says 2015...?
 
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Given that all three options have several votes, it's a perfectly valid subject for a poll.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 13 2015 at 17:15
Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Everyone I know here in the US says "two thousand fifteen" (aka Option 2), which is also the way we would say it in Italian.

And in Polish we say it this way too. Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 06 2015 at 20:03
I here about equal amounts of each of the first two options.

I say twenty-fifteen. I realized saying twenty-o-seven sounds a bit odd, but back in the 90's we were saying nineteen-ninety-two, not one thousand nine hundred twenty-two. It makes sense to me to revert back to that method.

I realize this method only makes sense while there are four digits in the year, but we've only got about 7,985 years until we have to worry about that. Embarrassed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2015 at 08:31
There's a twenty and a fifteen. What do you expect me to do, I'm a simple man.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2015 at 16:02
In England we say two thousand and fifteen. In the USA coordinating conjunctions are often dropped.  As the USA is the biggest influence on English language usage, the coordinating conjunction will (I am sure) gradually become neglected by native English speakers in the next few decades.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 07 2015 at 17:43
Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Everyone I know here in the US says "two thousand fifteen" (aka Option 2), which is also the way we would say it in Italian.

And in Polish we say it this way too. Smile

In Brazil (and I believe in all the Lusosphere) we say:

dois (two) mil (thousand) e (and) quinze (fifiteen). Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 14 2015 at 10:58
Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

Originally posted by Raff Raff wrote:

Everyone I know here in the US says "two thousand fifteen" (aka Option 2), which is also the way we would say it in Italian.

And in Polish we say it this way too. Smile

And in German as well Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2015 at 07:42
Twenty fifteen.

It was only at the start of this decade that the following realization hit me: We could (maybe should) have been saying "Twenty Oh-[#]" through the first decade of this century, like we say "Nineteen Oh-[#]" for the first decade of the 20th century. Same number of syllables, so it's no more a mouthful than "19--".

With "Two thousand (and)...", it will eventually get to be quite a mouthful. "Saturday the Twenty-Seventh of February, Two Thousand and Seventy-Seven". (PS. I've just checked it, and that will be an actual date.)


Edited by RoeDent - June 08 2015 at 07:46
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