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View Poll Results: How will you refer to the New Year?

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  • Two Thousand Ten

    41 34.45%
  • Twenty-Ten

    70 58.82%
  • Another nomenclature

    8 6.72%
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    Two thousand and ten, sounds better to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
    Two thousand and ten, sounds better to me.
    I'm with Jock.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
    Two thousand and ten, sounds better to me.
    Quite right. "Two thousand ten" is an Americanism.

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    Well, eight days into the year I find myself saying both "two thousand and ten" and "twenty ten." Neither one seems to predominate...yet!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob View Post
    Quite right. "Two thousand ten" is an Americanism.
    See any number of books and citations on how the ways of expressing things have traveled back and forth and back and forth again across the pond.
    My favorite is “The American Language” (Revised and enlarged 1921) by H.L. Mencken.
    [FONT="Georgia"][B][I]-- Larry B.[/I][/B][/FONT]

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