2013

I agree with absent - twenty-thirteen it is. The 'noughties' felt awkward, but now we are into plainer sailing...

We say seventeen thirteen, eighteen thirteen and nineteen thirteen so why not twenty thirteen? Does anyone talk about the one thousand nine hundred and fourteen to one thousand nine hundred and eighteen war? Doesn't two thousand and thirteen somehow sound prim and old maidish?

Yes! That's it Faye - I knew it sounded wrong, somehow...

I say two thousand and thirteen. Twenty thirteen sounds American to me.

I agree, I think, jingl...

Two thousand and thirteen. (It sort of rolls off the tongue)

And it's what it actually is.

Yes, twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, sixteenth meerkat toy and so on.

I can see the logic in all of that, but did you all say twenty o one, or two thousand and one?

Got to be twenty thirteen.

I would never say that I was born in one thousand nine hundred and forty. So I'm calling this year twenty thirteen.

If we were born in, say, 1946, we'd say "nineteen...." wouldn't we? Not "nine thousand....." so, twenty thirteen makes sense. I think.

Ana - I was too lazy to think of another example !

twenty thirteen for me. Why use 4 words when 2 will do. [lazy emoticon]

I wasn't around in 1901 Marelli...

And it's easier and quicker.

I'm saying twenty thirteen because last year was twenty twelve.

Ana, I'm never sure how to say it. Is it old-fashioned to say Two thousand and thirteen, like it used to be to say Nineteen hundred and one instead of nineteen oh one?