Let it be known: I am naming the 1st decade the "Ands". See what I mean?

Question

Every time you say a year ("Two thousand AND one, Two thousand AND three etc) you say AND

So the decade is called the Ands and I thought of it first. What does everyone think?

Answer 1

Technically, when reading numbers, you are not supposed to say "and" unless there is a decimal point.

e.g. 101.5 = one hundred one and five tenths
so 2001 = two thousand one

I have heard the 1900-1909 decade called the nineteen-oughts, so I think it would be called the twenty-oughts. Sounds a bit old-fashioned, though!

Answer 2

ya i accept brownies. but in our tamil language we have individual names for all years. So why cant we try the same in English also.

Answer 3

That works. Personally, I've just called it the O's. '01, '02, etc.......