All Together Now ...
2010. Twenty-ten. See how naturally it rolls off the tongue? You'll also note the sonorous echo of similar years belonging to previous centuries. Would you, for example, tell someone that your grandfather was born in one thousand, nine hundred and forty? My money's on nineteen-forty.
So say it with me: twenty-ten. Enough of this two-thousand-and garbage, oui?
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