We've all managed to stumble through a decade without a name now. In a few years a name will ultimately be assigned by general use as the masses agree on what to call it, but are we still too close to name it?
Some options:
- "the turn of the century" - yes, this would be a good one, but people still refer to the first decade of the 1900s as this, so it may be confusing
- "the turn of the millennium" - as if people will be able to spell that one, even if they can handle the enormity of the thought (disaster movies for everyone!)
- "the Os" - this could get confusing "Oh what?"
- "the Uh-Os" - this one has a grasp of current events backing it, but I can't think of a decade that hasn't had it's problems, so this can only get more depressing as the next few decades also have their problems
- "the nots" - a British term for zeros is "nots" (or is that spelled "knots"?) which can confuse all other people on the planet, but it has a good negative connotation that everyone seems to be feeling
- "the 2000s to 2010s" - well, this is certainly descriptive, but it's a mouthful, so it probably won't catch on, and what is the appropriate placement of those s s?
- "the first decade of the century" - easy to say, but still a bit long
- "the first decade" TFD could catch on, but it kinda ignores a huge number of decades that came before it
- "the 2000s decade" - sounds like a movie, and the 2000s will have a lot of decades, so it's not that specific
- "the first decade of the XXI century" - yes, let's get some roman numerals into the game to confuse everyone. I have seen this used, so we may finally go with mass inappropriate labeling, it's been done before ("hydro" means water... not electricity, but people do talk about their "hydro bills" - sorry, pet peeve).
And then... what about those 3 years before we can call the decade "the Teens", that's a no-man's land of descriptive hell too.
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