2015: "Two Thousand Fifteen" vs. "Twenty Fifteen"

I have to say it's a real relief to be in the new millenium. Before then, I was saying one thousand nine hundred ninety nine, which is a mouthful.

Actually, saying years in French really is that tedious. Either: "mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf" or "dix-neuf-cent-quatre-vingt-dix-neuf"

 

aRgHhHHh!!!

You keep calling this 2015 year something like "twenty fifteen" and like the Y2K in the 1900's, we will be having a Y-twenty-H problem...!!!

 

2000-2009 were the anomalies.

It had more to do IMO because of the thousandness of the year 2000.

Had it been 2099 to 2100 to 2101, it wouldn't have been such a drastic change.

Twenty ninety-nine
Twenty-one hundred
Twenty-one oh one

vs

Nineteen ninety-nine
TWO THOUSAND
Twenty oh one

So people stuck with two thousand one, two thousand two, etc.

Then after 2009, twenty-ten was one syllable less, and fit back with the old norm.

 

Dem brehz n ma say twenften.

 

Two zero one fiver

 

Is it time for the bi-decade or semi-decade review of this calamity?