No Good Name For The Decade About To End ...

[jackbristol]

What did we call it last century (ie 1900-1909)? Let's just call it the same as that.

The Aughts, I believe. I think that one will stick for the media because they need something shorter than the first decade of the century. But it is so ARCHAIC sounding that I do not believe it will ever catch on with the masses.

I'm not sure anything will catch on though. We're so used to 70s, 80s, 90s etc, that putting anything else in front of "ties" sounds a bit stupid. When we get to 2020 we'll just call it the twenties again, right?

[Jingthing]

Yes, the 20's will be the 20's, etc.

[Jingthing]

I noticed the Washington Post today referred to the last decade as THE 2000s. That is so bad.