How do you pronounce 2002?

[Pokerman]

There was an article in the paper the other day...about how we used to say "Nineteen oh-one" or "Nineteen eighty-five" but now, most people seem to be saying "two thousand and two" instead of "twenty oh-two"

So what is it, to you?

 

[lovetoread]

I put the <and> in. It just sounds better to me.

 

[Calamity Jane]

I say two thousand two... but grampa used to say 'ought two' when referring to 1902... I kinda like that.

Maybe from now on, this will be twenty ought two... for some reason i feel the need to spit out some t'baccy after i say that though...

 

[p_p_man]

Tootoo...

or Tootie...

 

[JazzManJim]

I say two thousand two... but grampa used to say 'ought two' when referring to 1902... I kinda like that.

Maybe from now on, this will be twenty ought two... for some reason i feel the need to spit out some t'baccy after i say that though...

And talk about them young whippersnappers and how they don't appreciate nuthin'. And then say something about fighting the Kaiser in the War.

I'm going with two-thousand-two. There's a logical reason, but it's no better than the logical reasons to use any of the others, so I'm going to claim personal preference. Though, I just might like the "ought-two" thing. It sounds....it just sounds neat!

 

[plasticman33]

Y2K2

 

[Scabbers]

twenty-oh-two

get used to it--we had no trouble with ten-sixty-six and all that

 

[Fly_On_Wall]

twothousand two.

but yah for the 1900 I always say nineteen nity whatever

I dont' think i've met anyone that would say one thousand nine hundred blah

 

[Calamity Jane]

Maybe it's related to the movies... It was Two Thousand One, but the second one was Twenty Ten... Go figure.

Can you believe HAL is now in the past?

Jimmie, it makes sense to me. When you're talking about money, you say Ninteen Hundred dollars, but noone says Twenty Hundred, it sounds silly.

Happy Twenty Ought Two y'all!

 

[JazzManJim]

Jimmie, it makes sense to me. When you're talking about money, you say Ninteen Hundred dollars, but noone says Twenty Hundred, it sounds silly.

Happy Twenty Ought Two y'all!

We were having this conversation at work just today.

The "Twenty-o-two" folks say that their way makes sense because we said "nineteen-ninety-nine" in the past and to follow that convention, it'd go their way. Of course those same folks didn't say "twenty-hundred". Most of them, to my experience, said "y2k". Kind trandy.

The "two-thousand-two" folks make sense, except that last century they didnt say "one thousand-nine hundred-ninety-nine".

So at this point, pretty much any convention makes some sense and I'm climbing aboard your bandwagon.

Here's to Twenty-Ought-Two! <t'baccy spit>

 

[morninggirl5]

It's two thousand two or if you must twenty o two but please please please don't use the and.

Two thousand and two is mathematically incorrect and if you use this and teach this to your children they have a very hard time correectly reading decimals. In mathematics the decimal point is where you use and, nowhere else. Some people do the same thing with money, they pronounce $125 as One hundred and twenty-five dollars, it drives me crazy. AND is ONLY used for a decimal point, as in 35.78 -- thirty-five and 78 one-hundredths or $75.18 - seventy-five dollars and eighteen cents.


Sorry, but you hit on one of my biggest pet peeves.


[/rant]

 

[Calamity Jane]

Isn't 'and' also used to indicate addition? As in "one and one is two"?

I learned it that way and had no problem with decimals. Technically, One Hundred and Twenty Five Dollars is correct if that's the way it was taught to you.

 

[lovetoread]

It's two thousand two or if you must twenty o two but please please please don't use the and.

Sorry, but you hit on one of my biggest pet peeves.

[/rant]

Yes ma'am.

 

[sexy-girl]

ditty'ing ought ditty isnt it ?






morninggirl you are so right and im going to slap myself if i catch myself doing that

 

[morninggirl5]

Isn't 'and' also used to indicate addition? As in "one and one is two"?

I learned it that way and had no problem with decimals. Technically, One Hundred and Twenty Five Dollars is correct if that's the way it was taught to you.

"One and one is two" is accepted by some as addition but not taught that way.

There are still teachers out there who teach lots of things incorrectly. Math happens to be my favorite subject so I tend to be very picky about things being right.

 

[perks]

Y2K2

usually write it 2k2...say it 2 thousand 2 cause when I say twenty two it sounds like 22 and I feel the need to shoot BBs

 

[tigerjen]

two-thousand-two....I just say how it is!

 

[Ezzy]

I find that the Latin helps keep it clear.

MMII




EZ

 

[xzchief]

I'm anal about this topic but O is a letter. Zero is a number. I say usually two thousand two. It always irritates when some sports guy says the score is "one-oh-four to one-oh-two." That's probably just me though.

 

[TheDR4KE]

2

I just write and say 2.

We used to drop the 19, and we should drop the 20 now.

;-)

Drake

 

[BigDawg69]

What year is it?

It's 2.

Like the way that sounds