Goodbye 2009, hello two thousand ten, you say? Not so fast.
The National Association of Good Grammar has decided to set us straight.
“NAGG has decided to step in and decree that (2010) should officially be pronounced ‘twenty ten,’ and all subsequent years should be pronounced as ‘twenty eleven,’ ‘twenty twelve,’ etc.,” reads their press release.
The NAGG is basically comprised of some dude named Tom Torriglia and a bunch of his buddies who know their English. They claim that people have been mispronouncing the year for 10 years now.
“NAGG is here to put everybody back on the correct path,” Torriglia says. “We lost the battle when we went from 1999 to 2000 – but now we’re hoping to win the war.”
He says that the “20″ should have been pronounced “twenty” from the get-go, emphasizing that every year in the 20th century was pronounced “nineteen something.”
” ‘Twenty’ follows ‘nineteen.’ ‘Two thousand’ does not follow ‘nineteen.’ It’s logical.”
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