Re: CHAT: Happy New Year! Parinaye!

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Daniel A. Wier wrote:

> >And there's the Great Question - what's the decade gonna be called?  How
> >will we refer to years like '03?  I'd say oh-three, but for the decade?
> >The two-thousands?  The zeroes?
>
> I'd say either the oh's (O-1, O-2, and I guess 2000 would be 'double-O' or
> oh-oh or uh-oh)...
>
> A more traditional (possibly antiquated) usage would be the 'oughts':
> ought-1, ought-2.  (They still call the 30-06 rifle the 'thirty ought six'
> don't they?)
I don't think it would be unreasonable to imagine that this decade could
revive the word "ought" for zero.  After all, we need *something*.
Otherwise, there can never be a show called "Hey, Remember the Oughts?"
IT'd have to be called, "Hey, remember that decade we couldn't name
because it had a zero in it?"

--Pat