View Single Post
Old 11-22-2017, 07:18 AM
  #50  
sewbizgirl
Power Poster
 
sewbizgirl's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Mississippi
Posts: 27,354
Default

Originally Posted by Suz
Another peeve of mine: We have said nineteen fifty-three (1953). What comes after nineteen? Twenty. So why are so many saying two thousand ten (2010) rather than twenty ten? Twenty seventeen (2017)?
I do hear people say "twenty-seventeen". Maybe about 50/50? I always considered it a shortcut, as it is one syllable vs. three.
sewbizgirl is offline