quote:Originally posted by O Captain Mike Captain:
btw, no one i know has ever said two-thousand-and-anything. its not an american thing, its just you.
That's true, in the sense that everyone I know says "Two thousand and two". Like everyone I know said "Two thousand and one". Like the movie did.
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Some websites say that British English requires the 'and'. In the US, it seems we don't pronounce the 'and' so clearly, if at all, so I'll often hear two thousann'n'one or simply two thousand one.
Sol: Ok, eighteen-nineteen rhymes better than twenty-eighteen, but you get the idea. Anyway, it may be a personal thing. I'd pronounce the date two thousand xx.
quote:Originally posted by O Captain Mike Captain: i'm going to say twenty ten and no one can fucking stop me. i think a lot of other people will too, because it has one less syllable that two thousand ten.
btw, no one i know has ever said two-thousand-and-anything. its not an american thing, its just you.
Maybe I should have rePHRASED that for you Mike... Everyone in Australia says two thousand and two... not two-thousand-two. And Brit's I heard say too and Kiwi's.
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I used the 'and' for 2001, but I tend to just say "two thousand two" for 2002.
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