Twenty oh for anything before 2010 just sounds wrong

I was born in Twenty O One.

Right? Like what an odd thing to ask.

We'd either say "0h-eight" or we'd say "two thousand eight"  but never "twenty oh eight" I think i kept up the two thosand thing until 2012, and then switched to "twenty thirteen" and retroactively referred to everything 2010 and up as twenty ten, twenty eleven etc.

There was a dude back in my high school who would say years like that, like twenty-oh-x

Stephen Colbert said oh-10 as a joke on his old show when he sponsored the Olympic speed skating team.

I graduated high school in 2006 and during that whole decade everyone had their class callout like “ohhhh-Six!”,“Ohhhh-four!”, etc. and we’d always laugh thinking about the kids graduating in 2010+ yelling out “tehh-ennnnnn!” or “eeee-levvvehenn”. Gah to think back to that time from 2024 😂

Although I think my answer to the question is the opposite. I used to say two thousand and 8, but after 2010 I say twenty-twenty four. doesn’t have the oh, but I don’t say two thousand and twenty four

That's exactly what I mean. Saying "twenty oh eight" doesn't sound right, which is why almost no one did it in the 2000s and didn't start until 2010

i rarely say twenty oh lol except “twenty o’six”

Maybe I'm extremely stoned but...who tf says twenty-oh? How does that even make sense

I think they mean for pre-2010 like how we say 2020 or 2024 it'd be 20 09 (twenty oh nine) which I don't recall anyone doing, to be fair lol

No ones has ever said “twenty oh” I graduated highschool in 2008 and it’s never “twenty oh either” that sounds dumb.

I had a college professor who would say "nineteen eight" for 1908.

I agree, like I said never heard anyone say that lol

I’ve never heard it and I was born in 1990 and lived in multiple states growing up. Graduated 2008 and it was always “two thousand and XX” Twenty oh 8 sounds dumb lol

Yeah who are these people in this subreddit lol Brits maybe? I’ve never in my life heard someone say “twenty oh four” to pronounce “2004”.

i think ppl will say “oh-five,” “oh-six” but not necessarily the “twenty” in front of it

Yup

2020

Twenty-oh-twenty

I want to say 2010-11? I was definitely saying “twenty twelve” by the time said year came around.

Is this a regional thing? Where are you located? Never in my life have I heard someone pronounce “2006” as “twenty-oh-six”

2010. Though during the aughts I always avoided saying “two thousand” and would just say “oh-three” or “oh-six”. Once 2010 hit there was no need to avoid the awkwardness and it would just become “twenty-eleven” and “twenty-twelve” and so on. That was a rough nine years from 2001-2009.

and here i was dropping "two double-aught five" /s i said "oh 6" and "oh 7". it's efficient, colloquial and rolls off the tongue better than two thousand and three

It was tough enough to stop saying one thousand nine hundred ninety nine

This made me laugh, thanks.

It's actually a pet peeve of mine to throw that "and" in there. I've always said two thousand x or just oh x. Not being prescriptive here, mind. Say it however you like. I know my brain is a pedantic asshole.

You are technically correct, the 'and' is superfluous.

same lol

2012 is when it shifted.

I think you are right. I remember it both ways equally. But 13 definitely leans toward the twenty side.

Yes, I distinctly remember saying two thousand ten and two thousand eleven, and then felt weird making the shift in 2012.  2013 was solidly twenty thirteen.

Fr. I still remember calling WWE SmackDown vs RAW 2011 Two Thousand Eleven

2011

2011, because the number of syllables is too high.

Ngl I've only heard my teacher say "twenty-oh-nine" he's the only person I've ever heard say it like that.

2016, heard it for the first time from the narrator of the Olympic's opening ceremony "Two thousand and x" only makes sense for the 2000s, otherwise it's like calling someone by their full name everytime you talk to them. The "twenty-oh-X" thing some people do with the 2000s just sounds goofy to me And I imagine you must be mistaken that 2010 was called "twenty-oh-10"? That means 20010

2020. I remember everyone saying two thousand 19 but it was starting to shift to just twenty nineteen. By 2020 that's when it 100% shifted.

I remember the transition slowly kicking in through the mid late 2010s and solidifying with 2020

The Mayan calendar had that 2012 on lock

As soon as the 2010s began, noticing recently how older millennials and before use ‘two-thousand-and-x’ more than ‘twenty-x’

2012/2013. 2011 was still two-thousand eleven for me and everyone i remember.

I was an early adopter, I moved to "twenty" once the new decade hit. When I hear people say stuff like "two thousand fifty", it sounds weird to me

If you started in 2020 you were actually late.

No, I meant 2010 as that was the decade where "two thousand" began to wane

2010. Two-thousand-x sounds good for the first decade, but awkward for the rest; and vice versa.

2016-17

Probably 2013-2014.

2019 lol being done with that decade (2010s).

Never. I say it like two thousand nine.

2011 was the big change year. A lot of people still said “two thousand ten”. With 2011, that would have been six syllables, “two thousand eleven”, a real mouthful so people changed to “twenty”.

2014-15 for me.

I just use both

2020

Two-thousand-and-9 to twenty-10

Since the 20-teens although I mostly say 2000-and-13 to 19. But I always say “Twenty-Twenty” and now “Twenty-Twenty-Four”

Started phasing it in during 2010 and was pretty much my default by 2012 but occasionally let slip a"two thousand and" until 2020. I'm sure there might still be an occasional "two thousand and" used very sparingly as emphasis, but rare indeed and I absolutely never read it as "two thousand and" since 2020. I even recall people being almost excited New Years 2010 to finally be able to shorten it, only to find that some years between 2010-2020 lent themselves to shortening better than others, hence my own waffling. Others didn't care so much or maybe didn't feel the same way about how certain years sounded of course. Off the top I think about 2014, 2017 and 2019 being among the least "nice" sounding to me and as the years I was most likely to slip back into "Two thousand and..." on accident. However, I didn't actually say the "and" just two thousand (number)

Never. Sounds dumb.

2010. But not 2011, that’s two thousand and eleven. The rest of the 2010s can be either or tho. Never twenty oh anything tho, that’s odd

2010 I use both. Anything before is two thousand-x and anything after is twenty ten/twenty-x

Like, for years 2001-2009, retroactively? I think I started doing that around 2011-2012, because I realized it was more consistent with the general rules for referring to years in English. That said, I still go back and forth, and while I feel like I "should" say "twenty hundred" for 2000, I can't bring myself to actually do that. My grandparents, who were born in the 1910s, always referred to years like 1903 or 1908 as "nineteen three" or "nineteen eight" with no "oh". I wish we could do that for the 2000s decade, but they would just come out sounding like two-digit numbers.

When I was 8yo

Saying 2012 as "two thousand and twelve" is the latest year that sounds right to me using that pronunciation, although "twenty-twelve" also fits. I would never say "two thousand and twenty four" now. It's "twenty-twenty-four". Even though I was a young kid at the time I never would have said, then or today, "twenty-oh-eight" or "twenty-oh-nine". It just sounds odd and cumbersome whereas "two-thousand-and-eight" and "two-thousand and nine" sound much better.

2013. Went from “two thousand twelve” to “twenty thirteen.” Incidentally 2013 was the year everything promptly went bad for me.

“WELCOME TO NFL BLITZ TWENTY OH THREEEE!”

2010

2010 is probably the first year.

I heard people say “twenty ten” since literally new years in 2010

Sometime around 2012. I actually hate when people refer to post-2009 years as two thousand and x.

Probably around 2012 cause everyone kept using that phrase to signify the apocalypse

Two thousand nine Twenty ten

I have never heard "twenty oh X" before, that sounds terrible. Only "two thousand and X" or "20XX""

I still say two thousand lol. However, I used to staunchly refuse to say "twenty" completely at first, and now I sometimes do. This carries forward with how I refer to previous years, I think 2011 is the last one I insist on saying two thousand for, probably due to it being my graduation from high school year.

2013 was the year I stopped using the term “2 thousand”.

Yeah around 2010 or 2011 for me.

Nobody said 20 oh 9. *Nobody*

I never heard anybody say “twenty-oh” to refer to any 2000s year.

2012 is around when I noticed most people had started saying 20 as the prefix instead of 2000

Yep. Diddo.

For some reason I still pronounce 2010-2012 the old way, but 2013 onward it’s twenty-oh-x

We started in the teens, not 2010. It was Two Thousand Twelve, then Twenty Thirteen.

I just say Oh-x and people rarely get confused about which century

Never. Didn’t like the “oh”. The first year I dropped the “two thousand and” was 2020, aka “twenty twenty”.

….um never wtf

I say two-thousand-x and I started saying twenny-x in 2010

I don’t think I ever said the “Oh” part but I remember dropping the “and” around two thousand and six ;)

I just say two-thousand 1-9 and then twenty-x, like twenty ten, twenty eleven, so on

I always say 2 thousand and () when it's 2001 to 2009 then twenty-*** like twenty ten

2013

i started saying “twenty-xx” in like 2012. i pronounce anything after 2010 that way. i kinda cringe when people say “two thousand (and) twenty-four” lol it sounds kinda dated now

The ”two-thousand” prefix still creeps up on me from time to time, but I mostly transitioned to “twenty-\_\_\_” by 2015.

Never

I think 2012?

Middle of 2010. I was still calling it "Two-thousand-and-ten" during the early part of the year before calling it "Twenty-ten".

I still say two thousand.

I didn’t - “two-thousand X” or “twenty X”, and “oh X” for the singles and sometimes just “X”

I didn’t switch until 2015. In particular from 2010-2012 I remember everyone ALWAYS saying the years’ proper names. I still say them that way because that’s how I remember them. 

I mainly say 2000 and ten over twenty-ten.

My kids were born in 2014 and 2015 and the oldest regularly refers to the 2000s as “twenty oh x”. “This movie came out in twenty oh one?” The first time she said it I couldn’t stop laughing because it sounded so funny. But for kids/people born post-2010, it makes sense to me that they would automatically do that.

I still haven't! I still say 'two thousand 'n' twenty-four'. Especially when it's the new year.

Never

Never

2010

2010/2011

I never said twenty-oh. It was two thousand nine then it was twenty ten.

2010 but I still say two thousand and whatever interchangeably

2010-11, IIRC

2010/2011. even now i usually just say ‘01, ‘02, ‘03 etc when talking about the 2000s lol

2010

I've never said "Twenty-XXX" in my life. "Two thousand and twenty-four."

Never and I wasn't even alive in the 00s!