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Welcome to the new decade. But what are we calling it?
Posted by Five-Centres on 4 January 2010 - 9:43am.
We had enough trouble with the Noughties, but that seems to have stuck. I read in an American magazine that the general consensus over there is that the years 2000 to 2009 are officially known as the Aughts, which is archaic and clumsy and anyway, who made that decision?
So if we've settled on the Noughties, what is this decade to be called? I don't think I've heard anyone mention anything.
The Teens? The Tens? What did they call the years 1910 to 1919? The war years?
Help!
And happy New Year to all.
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Tenties
As a well seasoned camper. I read over the weekend that the new decade was to be called the Tenties. Hi de hi!
Agreed
It has to be the Tenties.
The teens or teenies wouldn't make sense until 2013.
The...
2010s.
if only people were that sane
it was the 1310s, the 1410s, the 1510s, the 1610s, the 1710s, the 1810s and the 1910s
why do we need to make everything more "manageable" for people?
Or shall we just resign ourselves to Jedwardecade. *shudder*
Hundreds of years into the future
People will refer to the 'tenties' as the 2010s, just as they'll refer to the 'eighties' as the 1980s. But for those generations alive at the time, there's no need to differentiate between the centuries.
God knows
The last decade didn't have a satisfactory name; neither has this one; everyone thinks this millennium started in 2000 instead of 2001; and we've spent the last ten years saying 'two thousand and something' for no apparent reason instead of the infinitely more sensible 'twenty o something'. So, frankly, I give up. I'll be ready to have this conversation in ten years' time when we'll safely be in the Twenties.
If
The last decade was the noughties the next should be the niceities
The Age of Austerity
I feckin hate the 'Noughties' and can't ever imagine using 'Tenties' or 'Teenies'. The last decade was the start of the new Holy Wars and this decade will be the Age of Austerity as this country, especially, struggles with debt and identity.
And a happy New Year to you as well.
The Age of Austerity?
Doesn't really roll off the tongue, does it?
The Best Age of Austerity Album in the World, Ever...
The Best Age of Austerity Album in the World, Ever.. ?
That would be "Crisis? What Crisis?"
Dumbing Down...
the way things are going it will probably be known as Brand Tenties or Team Tens...if it's not sponsored by T-Mobile.
The Peston \ Pissed On Years
otherwise known as 'Skint, innit?'
and the Greatest Great Depression album....
Dark Side Of The Loan?
Shabby Road?
Lodger (needed to help with mortage payments)
Nevermind The Ballifs
and so on
The Tensions
This was in a cartoon in the Times the other day. Struck me as the most appropriate so far.
The
Decadents
good
call
The Age Of Dave...
?
How about something simple
How about something simple like the 1-0s possibly pronuonced One0's or Wano's?