Most English-spealking people outside the US said ‘aught’ instead of ‘oh’, but definitely about 2005 the ‘two thousand and’ syntax evaporated.
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MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
I’ve been doing it since '01 (pronounced “Oh-Won”). I thought everyone else has been too?
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
bryndos@fedia.io 4 hours ago
In UK I've mostly have heard 'naughties' for the decade sine about 1999.
But I rarely heard "naughty X" as a year name unless someone was being even more deliberately daft. I'd say "oh" would be most common here after "two thousand and X" too in my experience.I always thought that "'aught" was an American contraction of 'naught'.
"aught" in old timey-English can mean "other" or "else" or even "anything". In my local dialect we still say "owt" meaning "anything" as an opposite of "nowt" nothing".
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Our quirky university president tried very hard to make “aughty-aught” happen for 2000. It did not catch on.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 9 hours ago
I think Australian’s usually say “oh”. Signed an Aussie that’s spent enough time abroad to confuse himself on what they actually say
db2@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Time to ruin your day. They’ve been calling that time period the “aughties”.
Soggy@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I prefer “naughties”
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Time to ruin your day…
The words naughties and aughties are interchangeable and we have been calling them that since 2000.
mcqtom@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Nah, I couldn’t even bring myself to say “twenty” something until 2013. Before that it was all like “two thousand and five”.
Still saying the twenty part. Not sure when that can fall away. Since I was around for the nineteens, maybe I’ll never stop.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Did you ever say ninety hundred? For example ninety hundred and ninety nine.