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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Twenty-nineteen sounds very odd to my British ears. We say two-thousand-and-nineteen here.
Jnei
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Jan 28, 2019
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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.)
Julie808
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Jan 28, 2019
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i like that kind of corn!
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lol never thought about it...but I do say two thousand nineteen...
thinktwice
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Jan 28, 2019
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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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