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• What will we call the next decade?

  (Miscellany)
  
  

  
     "2000" and "2001" will probably be called "two thousand" and
  "two thousand and one", under the influence of the movie _2001: A
  Space Odyssey_; but after that, people will probably gradually
  switch to calling the years "twenty oh three", etc.  As for what
  we'll call the decade 2000-2009 (comparable to "the eighties", "the
  nineties", etc.), who knows?  Several people have suggested "the
  aughts", but this may be too archaic to bear revival.  No, don't
  bother snowing me with other proposals; let's just wait and see.

  
  
  Source: [Mark Israel, 'Miscellany: What will we call the next decade?', The alt.usage.english FAQ file,(line 5989), (29 Sept 1997)]
  
  
  
  

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