The Twenty Tens (με ένα χρόνο καθυστέρηση)

nickel

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Θα μπορούσα να το θυμηθώ το 2019, άρα η καθυστέρηση ενός έτους είναι συγγνωστή.

The 'Twenty Tens' is favourite to become the nickname for the next decade, according to a new survey.
More than 5,000 Brits were asked to choose the best from a list of potential titles for 2010-2019 - including the Teenies, the Tenties and the Tenners.
And survey results, from insurance comparison website Gocompare.com, revealed 'Twenty Tens' was the favourite - with more than 30 per cent believing it was the most catchy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...ome-nickname-for-next-decade-survey-says.html

Wikipedia: 2010s
The 2010s, pronounced "twenty-tens", "two thousand (and) tens", or simply "the tens", is the current decade which began on January 1, 2010 and will end on December 31, 2019. It is the first decade to completely take place within the 3rd millennium as the previous decade (2000-2009) took place across two different millennia.


Για την προφορά συγκεκριμένων ετών, δείτε:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s#21st_century_pronunciation_problem
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article376957.ece

Από το δεύτερο:
To the frustration of some academics, however, it seems that when naming years the world has become stubbornly determined to ignore a system that worked perfectly well for centuries. Over the pronunciation of past dates, there is consensus. The Battle of Trafalgar was fought in “eighteen oh five" (1805) and Einstein formulated his theory of relativity in “nineteen oh five” (1905). Logically, then, we are living in “twenty oh five” (2005). Stop 100 people in the street, however, and they will all say “two thousand and five”. To persist with “two thousand and . . . ” not only breaks with tradition but also wastes time. [...]

David Crystal, author of the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language, believes that the change will be heard in 2011. [...] “Rhythm counts for everything in something like this,” he said. “The closer you get to the traditional heartbeat of English rhythm, the more people subconsciously go for it.” Thus “two thousand and five” beats “twenty oh five” hands down, he explained, because the former sounds like a train trundling gently over railway tracks while the alternative is “much more abrupt”. For Professor Crystal, the flow of “two thousand and ten” beats “twenty ten”, but “two thousand and eleven” loses out to “twenty eleven”. :confused:


Η Wikipedia δεν κάνει καμιά αναφορά στα twenty teens — και μπράβο της, το θεωρώ απαίσιο.
 
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