Bloody Well Write » 2010 http://www.bloodywellwrite.com language + usage Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:09:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 How to pronounce “2010″ http://www.bloodywellwrite.com/2010/01/06/how-to-pronounce-2010/ http://www.bloodywellwrite.com/2010/01/06/how-to-pronounce-2010/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:03:39 +0000 bloodywellwrite http://www.bloodywellwrite.com/?p=780 For word wizards and the general public alike, the issue of pronunciation has reached feverish levels ever since the new year crept up on us all. How in the heck are we supposed to pronounce “2010″? Is it “two thousand, ten”? Or “two thousand and ten”? Or “twenty-ten”?

If you’re regular readers of Bloody Well Write, you already know my propensity toward anything AP Stylebook-recommended. This is no exception.

Happy twenty-ten to you and yours (photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/neldiogo/2775775175)

Happy twenty-ten to you and yours (photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/neldiogo/2775775175)

Via Twitter, the AP Stylebook has recommended it thus:

Attn. @…, @… and the others who’ve asked:
AP is pronouncing 2010 as “twenty-ten.”

Twenty-ten. There you have it. Happy new year, indeed.

Happy trails!

SAK

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