Posted by
Contrarian Guitarist on Monday, December 04, 2006 7:33:56 PM
A hundred years ago we called it the 1900's or nineteen hundred's. How do you say what we are living in now? The 2000's? Twenty hundred's?
I've thought there would be a consensus by now, some
William S. Burroughs-type or
Timothy Leary-type would have coined nomenclature for this decade.
The two thousands?
Noughties? (Adopted by the BBC)
The zeroes?
The double-aughts?
The oh-ohs?
The United Nations General Assembly declared the decade of 2000-2009 as the
"International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World." That's precious. But it doesn't really roll off the tongue.
I've tried to come up with something. But it just makes my head hurt. Any suggestions?