What Do We Call This Decade?
Published December 31, 2007 @ 13:30 in Miscellaneous
Yes, 2007 went by awfully quickly, but I'm more concerned with how we're burning through this decade. How can we be hitting 2008 already? Didn't we just say goodbye to the 90s? 2008 is awfully late in this decade and I still don't know what we're calling it.
Do we call this decade the zeros? I don't think so. Is it the oh-oh's? Nah... Do we go old school and call it the aughts? I doubt that'll catch on.
We should name this sucker while we're still in it. In 2011 we're going to want to look back at this decade and it'll need a nickname.
It feels like it's just begun but my calendar suggests it's winding down. Time flies when you're bashing Bush, praising Google and throwing away your incandescent light bulbs.
Anonymous
December 31, 2007 / 13:49
I had this conversation with my friends back in the 90s. To this day they laughed at my suggestion that it would be called "aught". I admit it was a little silly, but they doubted the existance of the word and phrase.
I think we will just use "oh"-year. In the future I think this decade will be defined by Bush, 911 and growing distrust of the government.