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in some circles at least...

noughties, n.
NEW EDITION:
draft entry Sept. 2001
The decade from 2000 to 2009.

1989 W. SAFIRE in N.Y. Times Mag. 7 May 18/4 That postcard touches on several possibilities suggested by scores of..third-millennium freaks... The Naughties was suggested by 40 readers. 1990 R. J. A. SMITH in Independent (Nexis) 19 Jan. 20 After the Eighties and the Nineties, what should we be calling the next decade? The Noughties? 1991 New Scientist 14 Sept. 62/3 With regard to Richard Caie's question about suitable names for the next two decades..: considering the moral decline of society as a whole, the next decade must surely be the noughties. 1996 New Scientist 11 May 80/3 Rachel Oliver thought of a rather more serious difficulty which we will encounter in the year 2000. What will we call the new decade..? To
get the ball rolling, Oliver suggests the ‘noughties’. 2000 Even. Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Electronic ed.) 1 July, Ditch the mesh handbag, flick the World arm-bands, and dump the diamante butterfly hairclips: the ultimate celebrity-endorsed accessory for the discerning noughties woman is the bloke who is..Just Gay Enough. 2001 Sunday Times 25 Mar. (Style section) X. 6 The Noughties celebrity face has a line-free forehead and bee-stung lips.



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My opinion on this pretty much matches the source, I think:
suggested by scores of..third-millennium freaks...


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- - - and what do we call the decade from 2010 - 2019?

Following the precendent given, they should be the tenties? or the teenies?
The latter is only really appropriate for seven of the years, anyway!


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Hmm....I've been calling this decade the oh-ohs (seemed appropriate enough to me).



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