{"id":164,"date":"2010-02-04T03:41:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=164"},"modified":"2010-02-04T03:41:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:41:40","slug":"twenty-ten-or-two-thousand-ten-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-Ten or Two Thousand Ten or…"},"content":{"rendered":"

FD tries to say “twenty-ten” rather than “two thousand ten” or “two thousand and ten” \u00a0when talking about what year it is. \u00a0Why “twenty-ten” sounds more cool and correct isn’t clear to FD, though the fact that FD spent a lifetime saying it was \u00a0“nineteen-whatever” and, when writing about US history, always said “Eighteen-whatever,” or “Seventeen-whatever.”<\/p>\n

So why didn’t that work for 2000 – 2009? \u00a0 True, one never said “Nineteen-00,” it was always “Nineteen-hundred,” which was somehow idiomatic. \u00a0 There doesn’t seem to be a similar “twenty-hundred” in the language, so 2000 became “two thousand” and then 2001, well that was Arthur C. Clark’s fault, FD thinks, that we all said “two thousand one.” \u00a0And once that got started…<\/p>\n

Anyway, FD tries to say “twenty-ten” but hears lots of people (including the announcer on The Daily Show?) saying “Two-Thousand Ten” and variations thereon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FD tries to say “twenty-ten” rather than “two thousand ten” or “two thousand and ten” \u00a0when talking about what year it is. \u00a0Why “twenty-ten” sounds more cool and correct isn’t clear to FD, though the fact that FD spent a lifetime saying it was \u00a0“nineteen-whatever” and, when writing about US history, always said “Eighteen-whatever,” or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}