MemeFlux

How would you pronounce the year number in this link?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_of_2007

“Two thousand and seven”, I guess would be most people’s choice. But all through the last decades we have used to divide years into two numbers, so when will we start using “twenty” to designate the current century? In “Twenty-ten”? And what then, when we sit down to think about the early decades of this century, how will we then refer to the first years?” I remember back in the early tens” might work, “Two thousand and one” will probably stand out due to events and other memes — but what about the years we are currently living? “The late oh-ohs” just sound silly — Wikipedia expands:

Names of the decade
In contrast to the decades from 1920 to 1999, which are called “the Twenties”, “the Sixties”, and the like, the 2000s have no universally-accepted name. Some people refer to the decade simply as the “two thousands” while others may refer to it as the “twenty hundreds”; this can be written as “the 2000s” or “the ’00s”. But simply saying “the 2000s” can cause confusion, since this could refer to the entire 21st century, or even the entire millennium. The most common format (in the English language) in referring to the individual years is to read out the full name; i.e. 2008 as “two thousand (and) eight”. Less commonly, but occasionally in the media, a shorter version such as “twenty-oh-seven” is used.

Determining a name for the decade has been problematic, especially in the United States. The term “Noughties” has been suggested by the BBC,^[1][2] but this term has not gained general currency, especially outside the United Kingdom although it is popular in Australia.

Other proposed names include:

• aughts, aughties, the Twenty-O’s, and double-aughts, from ‘aught’,^[3] which, like “naught” means “zero” (aughts was one of the more popular terms in the early 20th century)
• nils and nillies, from “nil”, meaning “nothing”
• 2Ks, from the Greek term khilioi, meaning “thousand”
• ōzies, from the practice of calling the number zero ‘O’
• zeroes, double zeroes, ohs, double ohs, and oh-ohs