I say "two thousand and ten".
But I hear other people saying "twenty ten".
Why do I say "two thousand and ten"? Probably because I called the year 2000 "two thousand" - and the year after that "two thousand and one" (what else could I call it, growing up in years where everyone knew the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" - and no-one called it "twenty o one: A Space Odyssey"?) and so on.
Of course, I talk about "nineteen o one" and "nineteen ten" so I'm not really consistent.
So I'm curious. What are other people calling this year?
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