Pronouncing the Year
There’s nothing more annoying than having people mispronounce the year. It started in 2010 when people actually said out loud, “Two Thousand and Ten” to identify the year. It’s even worse this year when people say, “Two Thousand and Eleven.” Here is the correct way to pronounce those years: “Twenty Ten” and “Twenty Eleven.” This “proper year pronunciation” is such a big problem that fellow WordPress.com-er Gus Pearcy created a blog — SAY Twenty Eleven — just to set people right; and I have borrowed one of Gus’ images to help spread the appropriate learning meme:
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