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What is this decade called?

post #1 of 102
7/12/08 at 2:42pm
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I was wondering what this decade is called. There are the 70s, 80s, and 90s, but what is this one and the next called? or will we say "just after the turn of the century"?
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post #2 of 102
7/12/08 at 2:51pm

Re: What is this decade called?

I think it's the "oughts".
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post #3 of 102
7/12/08 at 3:20pm

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Yep. Just like Jethro Bodine would say. "Quantum of Solace is the second Daniel Craig double-aught seven spy pitcher of the aughts!"
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post #4 of 102
7/12/08 at 4:18pm

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Sometimes I like to call them the "oh-ohs" .
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post #5 of 102
7/12/08 at 7:02pm

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Last time around I believe we usually called this one the oughts and the next one the teens.
Although "ought eight" really sounds like a reason you got too drunk.
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post #6 of 102
7/12/08 at 7:45pm

Re: What is this decade called?

The Null Decade?
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post #7 of 102
7/12/08 at 8:43pm
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Re: What is this decade called?

Well 8 years into the decade, you would think we would have come up with a good name for it already.
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post #8 of 102
7/12/08 at 11:19pm

Re: What is this decade called?

In the UK, although not universally accepted, 'the noughties' has become more popular. The BBC have started using it recently, which has aided adoption.

2000s - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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post #9 of 102
7/13/08 at 2:11am

Re: What is this decade called?

I guess that eventually, it will follow the same pattern as previous centuries. Thus, just as we had 'the nineteen hundreds', 'the eighteen hundreds' and so forth, we will have 'the two thousands'.

'The Noughties' is indeed pretty widely used in the UK, but it's still a minority of the population that use this label. I suspect that it will fizzle out because it doesn't sound serious enough.
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post #10 of 102
7/13/08 at 7:20am

Re: What is this decade called?

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Originally Posted by andrew markworthy
I guess that eventually, it will follow the same pattern as previous centuries. Thus, just as we had 'the nineteen hundreds', 'the eighteen hundreds' and so forth, we will have 'the two thousands'.

The problem there is the ambiguity, since "the nineteen hundreds", for example, is used more-or-less interchangably with "the nineteenth century". (We'll set aside, for the moment, the vexed question of whether 1900 counts as the first year of the new century or the last year of the old. ) At least on my side of the Pond, I suspect "the nineteen hundreds" indicates the century, rather than the decade, most of the time it used.

Regards,

Joe
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post #11 of 102
7/13/08 at 7:54am
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Lets try some suggestions out. Use a common statement like:Music from the 80s was cool.

Music from the oughts was cool.
Music from the oh-ohs was cool.
Music from the null decade was cool.
These all sound like you are talking about one music group.

Music from the noughties was cool.
This looks like you misspelled naughties.

I agree that the "two thousands" sounds more like a century, but 2000s sounds a little better. Maybe we should just go with the same format as the 80s and use 00s
Music from the 00s was cool.
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post #12 of 102
7/13/08 at 8:12am

Re: What is this decade called?

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"the nineteen hundreds", for example, is used more-or-less interchangably with "the nineteenth century".

Actually the "nineteen hundreds" is the "twentieth century", since the "first century" started with year zero.

What might be more interesting is speculating on the adjective that should be coupled with the "oughties". Famous ones from the past were the "gay nineties" and the "roaring twenties".
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post #13 of 102
7/13/08 at 8:28am

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Originally Posted by Joseph DeMartino
The problem there is the ambiguity, since "the nineteen hundreds", for example, is used more-or-less interchangably with "the nineteenth century".

Regards,

Joe

As Dennis has already pointed out, ah, NO.
This seems to trip up a lot of folks.
I know a young man whose teacher (you know, an educator, someone with a bleeping degree) actually told him he was mistaken in stating that the 1800s were the 19th Century.
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post #14 of 102
7/13/08 at 8:33am

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How about the decade of the zero's? Oh well. Just a thought.
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What might be more interesting is speculating on the adjective that should be coupled with the "oughties".
This decade started out with a bubble (.coms everywhere! ), a scare (Y2K ) and a party (The millennium! ) but it's pretty much been all down hill since. Maybe we should just forget the whole thing and look ahead to the 2010's.
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post #15 of 102
7/13/08 at 9:26am

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What did they call it the last time around (1900-1909)?

I fully expect we won't have a universal title until the next decade when music compilations and VH-1 specials have to come up with something.
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post #16 of 102
7/13/08 at 9:27am

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Originally Posted by gene c
How about the decade of the zero's? Oh well. Just a thought.This decade started out with a bubble (.coms everywhere! ), a scare (Y2K ) and a party (The millennium! ) but it's pretty much been all down hill since. Maybe we should just forget the whole thing and look ahead to the 2010's.

I dunnow, Gene. The Red Sox win 2 World Series, The Pats 3 Super Bowls, the Celtics their 17th Championship... take away George W Bush and Co (which will happen in January) and the aughts rock!
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post #17 of 102
7/13/08 at 9:56am

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So Bob, you really want to call it the "Bostonian good-for-oughts"?
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post #18 of 102
7/13/08 at 10:07am

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How about "the first decade". Sure, there can be some abiguity because every century has a first decade, but I would imagine 99% of the time it would be obvious one was referring to 2001-2010.
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post #19 of 102
7/13/08 at 10:26am

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I dunnow, Gene. The Red Sox win 2 World Series, The Pats 3 Super Bowls, the Celtics their 17th Championship... take away George W Bush and Co (which will happen in January) and the aughts rock!
Ya, being out here on the West Coast I have fond memories of the '70's, and '80's. But, come on. The Red Sox finally win a WS and now the whole town can't seem lose at anything. Enough already! God help us if the Cubs win it this year (HA! What the h*ll am I thinking!).
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post #20 of 102
7/13/08 at 10:49am

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Originally Posted by Eddie W.
I fully expect we won't have a universal title until the next decade when music compilations and VH-1 specials have to come up with something.
No need to wait for the next decade for VH-1 to do their special on the '00s, they already have.
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post #21 of 102
7/13/08 at 11:51am

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Dennis Nicholls wrote (post #2):
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I think it's the "oughts".

I think it's better to follow Webster's here:
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7. aught n (plural -s)

[alter. (resulting from incorrect division of a naught) of naught ]

1: ZERO, CIPHER

2 archaic: NONENTITY, NOTHING

and leave the <<b>ought>-spelling for the modal verb (although they are pronounced the same in SAE).

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post #22 of 102
7/13/08 at 11:56am

Re: What is this decade called?

Duplicate.
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post #23 of 102
7/13/08 at 4:26pm

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Originally Posted by Dennis Nicholls
Actually the "nineteen hundreds" is the "twentieth century", since the "first century" started with year zero.

Which I know perfectly well, of course. For some reason I just had a brain-fart while composing that post. However, the problem remains. People still use "the 1900s" to mean all years starting with "19" (that is to say, the last year of the 19th and the first 99 years of the 20th centuries), rather than the 10 year span from 1900 through 1909. So the usage is still ambiguous, which was my point - admittedly expressed in the form of a giant and incredibly obvious mistake.

Regards,

Joe
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post #24 of 102
7/13/08 at 5:18pm

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I don't have nearly the creativity to think of a whole new word. Where is Milton Sirotta when you need him?
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post #25 of 102
7/14/08 at 12:49pm

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Originally Posted by Greg_S_H
Yep. Just like Jethro Bodine would say. "Quantum of Solace is the second Daniel Craig double-aught seven spy pitcher of the aughts!"

And I always thought Jethro was a double-naught spy!



...who was always good at his gazintas.

Two gazinta four two times.

Two gazinta ten five times...
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post #26 of 102
7/14/08 at 1:12pm

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All right Frezon! Get out of the cee-ment pond right now, and drop that pot-passer!
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post #27 of 102
7/14/08 at 2:11pm

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New Millenium works for me. It isn't like that will duplicate itself anytime soon. Then for 2100-2110 it would just be the Twenty-one Hundreds.
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post #28 of 102
7/14/08 at 6:20pm

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Originally Posted by Dennis Nicholls
So Bob, you really want to call it the "Bostonian good-for-oughts"?

No, Dennis, I want to call it the "Wicked Pissah Aughts" (pronounced "ahts", of course).
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post #29 of 102
7/15/08 at 7:30am

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Originally Posted by Rex Bachmann
Dennis Nicholls wrote (post #2):



I think it's better to follow Webster's here:



and leave the <<b>ought>-spelling for the modal verb (although they are pronounced the same in SAE).

Naught is never used when referring to the zero or zeroes in a year. In fact, naught is almost never used in colloquial english, except when referring to "nothing."
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post #30 of 102
7/15/08 at 8:08am

Re: What is this decade called?

2000s - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Taken from the above link:

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Names of the decade

In contrast to the decades from 1920 to 1999, which are called "the Twenties", "the Sixties", and the like, the 2000s have no universally-accepted name. Some refer to the decade as the "twenty hundreds" while others may refer to it as the "two thousands". In written form this could appear as "the '00s" or "the 2000s". But writing "the 2000s" or simply saying "the two-thousands" can cause confusion, since this could refer to the entire 21st century or even the entire millennium.

Determining a name for the decade has been problematic, especially in the United States. In 1999, anticipating the upcoming awkwardness, a US group calling itself "Project Naughtie" ran a viral campaign in an attempt to popularize "the Naughties" as the decade's name.[3] The term involves a clear play on words, stemming both from the idea that "naught" means "nothing" or "zero" as well as the fact that "naughties" sounds both like "nineties" and "naughty". A limited number of the media have made some use of the term as well, including the BBC (although adopting a more traditional spelling based upon "nought").[4][5] Both spellings have gained some currency among the legitimate press in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia, but there still remains nothing remotely close to a consensus on what term to use. Even the decades' trend tracking VH-1 has opted to not take any sides, calling their new show on the decade, "I Love the New Millennium"[6]

Other proposed names include:

aughts, aughties, and double-aughts, from 'aught',[7] which, like "naught" means "zero" (aughts was one of the more popular terms in the early 20th century)
nils and nillies, from "nil", meaning "nothing"
2Ks, from the Greek term khilioi, meaning "thousand"
ōzies, and the Twenty-Os, from the practice of calling the number zero 'O'
zeroes, double zeroes, oh-zeroes, ohs, double ohs, oh-ohs, and twenty ohs.




Moving ahead, what do we call the next decade - the Tens?

Somehow it doesn't sound right - like it needs two syllables (Twenties, Thirties)
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