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does my head inIt is twenty nineteen ffs
BBC announcers seem still under orders to give the 'two thousand and....' . Strangely, with their programmes commemorating the end of WWI, they never said it ended in 'Nineteen Hundred And Eighteen', it was just 'nineteen eighteen'.
I thought from 2010 onwards we were gonna start the 'twenty ten' etc, but the 2,000 & just goes on
. Even stuff like the Olympics and Euros - twenty twelve, twenty sixteen etc that everybody used - didn't kill it off, and they just resumed the Two Thousand And Seventeen.... 
Surely from Twenty Twenty we will never hear 'two thousand and...' again
2020 will be pronounced as twenty twenty.
Two thousand and nineteen in the Queen's English.
HTH
twenty nineteen actually means nothing, you wouldn't tell someone you just bought a new sofa for twenty nineteen pounds would you, it'd be what it is, two thousand and nineteen pounds.
On the BBC think of how much license fee money has been wasted by all those people wasting 2 valuable seconds every time they say 2000 & whatever. It soon adds up, we could get better value for money saying 20 19. That's not to mention when in general conversation the person talking to you wastes 2 or 3 seconds of you're life that you could be doing something better or more productive.
Jan 2, 2019 -- 8:22AM, scandanavian_haven wrote:
two thousand and nineteen is technically correct, clue is in the number 2019 twenty nineteen actually means nothing, you wouldn't tell someone you just bought a new sofa for twenty nineteen pounds would you, it'd be what it is, two thousand and nineteen pounds.
There is a common sense way to say years and prices, so it is not just saying the number.Two thousand and nineteen pounds is OK. But would you say you bought a bag of chips for 'one point eight five pounds', or give your birth year as 'nineteen hundred and eighty nine' ?
who knows what people said 1000 years ago, 10 19 or one thousand and 19.
Jan 2, 2019 -- 10:51AM, scandanavian_haven wrote:
does it really matter though, nobody makes a consious decision either way, comes out the way it comes out.who knows what people said 1000 years ago, 10 19 or one thousand and 19.
Everybody knows that the Battle of Hastings was in ten sixty six and not one thousand and sixty six, surely?!?
70s, 80s roll off the tongue. What is this decade? It needs a good name.
I'm going to call it Decadey McDecadeFace.
