And '03 model car.

For car models from the year 2003, we call them '03 models, pronounced ''oh three''. That sounds okay. And it sounds okay to go all the way to having '09 models of cars for the year 2009. But wouldn't it sound strange to talk about a '10 model car for the year 2010?

Imagine how strange the response to this question would be:

Question - ''How old is your car?"

Answer - ''I have a '10.''

Doesn't that sound a bit odd? Do you think we will be calling cars made in the year 2010 '' '10 models''? I don't think so. It sounds too strange.

The ''and'' in the title of this thread should be ''an''.

<<Doesn't that sound a bit odd? Do you think we will be calling cars made in the year 2010 '' '10 models''? I don't think so. It sounds too strange.>>

"twenty-ten" or "two-thousand ten" will probably be used instead of saying "ten."

<<"twenty-ten" or "two-thousand ten" will probably be used instead of saying "ten.">>

Yeah, that's what I think too. I think we will call them ''2010 models''. It just sounds strange to call a car from 2010, a ten model. '03 models of cars from the year 2003 sound okay thay.

''thay''

I don't know how that happened, but I meant to type ''though'', but for some reason it came out as ''thay''.

So what will we call the year? Twenty-ten, or Two-thousand-ten? The first way would conform will the system we are using this decade (two-thousand-five), but the second one would go along with how we did it for centuries before then...so which way will we go?

Quote-''So what will we call the year? Twenty-ten, or Two-thousand-ten? The first way would conform will the system we are using this decade (two-thousand-five), but the second one would go along with how we did it for centuries before then...so which way will we go?''

I think you got those backwards.

I started wondering how we should or will probably pronounce years in the next decades. As you know, in the current year 2005, we pronounce it two thousand five. The occasional person would say twenty-oh-four, but rarely. You would think we'd say twenty-oh-five for 2005, as we do for 1904 nineteen-oh-four. I think it's because of the shadow of the way we said 2000 (we couldn't say twenty hundred), and the "two thousand___" method continues. But how will we pronounce dates after 2009? Will we say two thousand ten or twenty ten for 2010?. If we say two thousand ten, certainly by the year 2101, we won't be able to say "two thousand one hundred and one", we'd have to revert to "twenty one oh one". What is your opinions on how we should pronounce our dates from 2010 onward? It's a weird question but i'm curious nonetheless. I'd pronounce it twenty-ten (2010). What do you all think?

I think it will switch to twenties. After all, there was already a popular song back in the ???'s, with a line started "In the year 2525" and it was pronounced "twenty-five twenty-five".

The song's title was "In the year 2525" and it was from 1969.

''I think it will switch to twenties. After all, there was already a popular song back in the ???'s, with a line started "In the year 2525" and it was pronounced "twenty-five twenty-five".

When though?

When will we switch to twenties, by 2010 or by 2100?

I think we'll switch back in 2010, because as it is, when most people say the year, they say twenty-ten. At least I already do.

I like the Twenty-Ten perfectly......sounds very interesting

I myself would go with "two thousand and ten" (the "and" here is required in my dialect), as "twenty ten" just sounds way too science fiction-y, to say the very least.