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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread I need a word #6694 09/20/2000 2:15 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2 Jersey - New Jersey Bobby stranger Bobby stranger Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 2 Jersey - New Jersey What shall we call this decade? The twenty's to the ninety's all worked well, but I haven't heard a plausible, tongue-friendly word for right now. The oh-oh's doesn't really have a ring to it, and the double-aughts implies a license to kill. I am at a loss. I want to die in my sleep, like my grandpa; not yelling and screaming, like his passengers. I want to die in my sleep, like my grandpa; not yelling and screaming, like his passengers. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I need a word #6695 09/20/2000 2:23 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky You and the rest of us, Bobby! Welcome to you. Surely some word maven somewhere will come up with something. Logically, it seems to me that this would be the "ones" decade, if the teens are the teens, and the twenties are the twenties, etc. But I don't think that will catch on. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I need a word #6696 09/20/2000 9:03 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 347 Melbourne, Australia Marty enthusiast Marty enthusiast Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 347 Melbourne, Australia Hasn't the obvious word Noughties (pronounced, of course, Naughties) caught on outside Australia, then? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: I need a word #6697 09/21/2000 4:49 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Didn't it use to be the case that e.g. 1800s meant the first decade of the century? At some point when I wasn't looking it suddenly shifted to mean the whole century. If we go back to the earlier usage we would call the first decade of the 21st century the 2000s (two thousands or twenty hundreds according to taste). Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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