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do you say "twenty-nineteen" or "two-thousand-nineteen" or "two-thousand-and-nineteen"? i keep hearing, on tv, "two-thousand-nineteen" and i NEVER heard anyone say "one-thousand-nine-hundred-ninety-nine" or anything like it. if we had a nineteen-nineteen, why can't we have a twenty-nineteen? it is baffling me.

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genessa 8 Jan 28
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Level 7

I say twenty-nineteen. What will I say in a year? I don’t know. I don’t have twenty-twenty vision.

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Twenty-nineteen sounds very odd to my British ears. We say two-thousand-and-nineteen here.

Jnei Level 8 Jan 28, 2019
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I always say twenty nineteen, divided by a common language in our own country 🙂

@ipdg77 Isle of Wight = virtually foreign!

@Jnei When you come over on the ferry they say to set your watch back 20 years lol
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I currently say two thousand nineteen, but I will likely say twenty twenty next year and twenty something for the coming years. Of course, I said nineteen whatever, but when two thousand came along, that's where I've been stuck, until next year, which will likely be more popular to say twenty twenty. Hoping that will be the year for our country to have a clear vision toward a better future. (corny, I know.)

i like that kind of corn!

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Level 8

I like twenty nineteen.....

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Level 7

"Twenty Nineteen" in my little world.

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Level 9

Twenty nineteen.

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Level 9

I say twenty nineteen.

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Level 8

lol never thought about it...but I do say two thousand nineteen...

okay lol you're entitled to say it as you like and i am not blaming you... but i flinch when i hear it!

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@genessa I work as an accountant and that is what I hear all day and in the field...right now, we are working on doing tax returns for the year two thousand and eighteen, payroll in the year two thousand and nineteen, and tax planning for ...get this, twenty-twenty...I have no clue why...lol

@thinktwice oy vay! i hope it doesn't bother you as it does me!

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@John_Tyrrell true...you often just pick up words and sayings that are all around you...sometimes I wish I didn't...it feels odd sometimes to say words that make no sense but are familiar...like "what ev.." ugh...lol
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