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If you count the 20 zerOs or O's in this first decade, they don't even include the zeros in the year 2000. Count them in years 2001 through 2010. Being a misnomer to include year 2000 anywhere but in the 1990's (its last year) if even there it sounds incorrect it is because it is a misnomer there also! It is a hurrdle but get over it! There WAS NO year zero.AD BC or otherwise. Smart Tip On Page! Twelve Newsletters email format on page with a $9.95 Tipjar contribution and suggest a tip only so visit back often or re-tip if convenient for frequent updates and new messaging! An interesting article I've found to date from this realm of pop culture - internet writers - where dictionary editors insist will produce some common name, came in the Missourian titled "Primes: Finally, a reasonable name for the decade" which I liked his deliberated thought about the whole matter, however his like every comment I've heard outside the USAToday's forum on this dilemma this writer Greg T Spielberg misses the scholastic background material content which again will I restate here is the only hurrdle to get over and we're there and which I provide a complete fit to the pop puzzle and to the support of the internet engineers themselves being the search editors who place my name twenty zeros out front going on now 10 years, is there a riddle answer to the question of an Alpha-NUMERIC title for this two-term name, not one, which they all throw out, decade every other decade has had and remember we're speaking numerically not popularly as this would be a sub-culture event. So the concerns may rather be, is zero a numeral character which represents the numeral before numeral one? Many academics believe so. Circling The Sacred Mountain Book on Circling The Himalayas  Addressing our original page title, in archives "Decade Name Twenty What?" genuinely it doesn't have to be a given that "we have entered the 21st century clearly now and that all decades here begin with 20" or 2 0. But 2 0 is not, nor is ever refered here to as "two zero" (2 0) but 20 or twenty, in a vernacular in case some enterprising individual(s) reappear with some bellringing idea for a new twist, of this most definite and also ordinal numbers symbolism, as code and albeit for the first word or term of the two-term or 2 word alpha-numeric title or phrase such as the "20 0's". Most all online forums generally agreed upon use of a term zeroes (spelled either way as too, "zeros") for the decade name and though may inadvertently have addressed the simple importance as for nothing more or further included with "term and word" zeros during months preceeding this decade and too months (and years) following, and but launched a mountain of anachronism surrounding our need for two words or terms, if joined together, otherwise an easy ability we surely have to count to 10 and subsequently after, count to or through twenty. The "beginner forum" previously held as title on this frontpage for over six years now has been refiled on this date April 1st, 2007, into the T O C at top of page but with all of the original detailed material so that room for some more highlighted concepts and even theories if you wish to submit email comments, as has been the proceedure for an exchange of our ideas and debate for the stigma. SO new campaign for Diet Rite states: "O Calories O Carbs O Caffeine O Sodium" dietrite.comPure ZerO cola. Goes the ad highlighting the big fat O at the end of ZerO. Cheerios has been a family favorite for years — with good reason! ... Those wholesome little O's have only one gram of sugar.Please here, if year zero were refered to as contrasting year one, AD or BC but in holographic view not so linear, as we too often do then one year must be one, one year and first year. Year One AD that is for our purpose. It's that plain and simple! There was nO zerO or year zero. So start your count from or with one (year one) and count ten years and you have a complete decade and the next year after this first decade has completed is year 11 so being the first year of the second decade with count (year) 11. This From Publishers Weekly A Greek collector of religious relics searching for artifacts from Christ's crucifixion sends samples of a powder dated to Year Zero to three foreign labs, thereby unwittingly unleashing a plague organism that races through the world's populations. Add A Few More Zeroes To My Paycheck! "Decade Without A Name" is article By Reporter Maria Puente, USAToday The new century is almost here and we - that is, Americans and the rest of the English-speaking world - still haven't decided what we're going to call the first decade. To wit: We're coming out of the 1990s and going into the what? The 2000s? How do you say that? No doubt most people haven't thought much about this looming linguistic crisis - too busy arguing about whether computers will work or when the new millennium really starts. But it's no small thing to those who need such a shortcut. Imagine Dan Rather comes on one night and says, "The government predicted today the U.S. economy will decline sharply in the middle of the uh Double Ohs? The Pre-Teens? The Zeros?" Or imagine you're a headline writer and have to squeeze in "The first decade of the 21st century." What will that be? FD21C? Not likely. "What are car dealers supposed to say about their new cars - the 'Zero Plymouths' are here?" asks Avi Arditti of Voice of America, which is running a worldwide contest to find a name for the decade. Surely then there's a government department working on all this. Wrong. Apparently, no one in America's vast officialdom is in charge of deciding what we're going to call the years 2000-2009. A USA TODAY survey of language mavens, dictionary editors, dialect experts and futurists also came up empty. The Associated Press, the largest domestic news service, has not decided what to use. It, too, is waiting for a consensus to develop. "You know, the person who comes up with this name is going to be significant," says Ken Davis, historian and author of Don't Know Much About History. He prefers the term Decade One - presumably D1 for short. Frank Abate, editor in chief of the U.S. Dictionaries Program for Oxford University Press, which publishes the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary , says his advice is to wait and listen. "My position as a lexicographer is to wait for people to start talking and then hold a microphone out," says Abate. "Something likely will catch on, and my guess is it will be coming out of popular culture." We know what you're thinking: Why don't we just use the same term they used for the first decade of the 20th century? Well, it turns out no one knows what term was used back then. It could have been the "nineteen hundreds," or 1900s, according to Allan Metcalf, an English professor at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill., and secretary of the American Dialect Society. Incidentally, he thinks the next decade will be known as either The Zeros or The Ohs. Some historians think the concept of referring to decades as discrete units of time didn't develop until after World War I. There's some evidence that even the "Gay Nineties," the gilded years of the 1890s, didn't come into use in America until decades later. "Before the war, if you asked someone about a date, they would say, 'That was in 1904,' or 'That was during the Taft administration' or something like that," says Ronald Grele of the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University. "Then World War I became such a turning point in American life, the teens and aughts (zeroes) faded into 'before the war.' " But John Simpson, chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary in Britain, says researchers have found that terms like the "twenties" or the "thirties" became popular at the end of the 19th century. "Most of them are first recorded in the 1880s," Simpson says. "Presumably that was when the sense that they were nearing the end of a century really permeated the public imagination." Other historians say the terms used 100 years ago are so archaic as to be unintelligible to modern audiences. "Sometimes you have to go to primary evidence - ask some old people what they remember," says Abate. "One of my editors lives with her 84-year-old mother, so she asked her. And she said without hesitation, 'We called it the Nineteen Aughts.' " Aught (naught is another way to spell it), is the Old English word for zero. It's still in use in Britain but it's virtually unheard in the USA except maybe when referring to ammunition size. So out with the aughts and the naughts. What else is there? Here are some of the terms floating around: The Pre-Teens. The Twos. The Ohs. The Singles. The Zips. The Earlies. The Primary Decade (PD). The First Decade (FD). The Voice of America, which broadcasts to more than 80 million people, is running a contest on its weekly Wordmaster show about what to name the first decade. So far, suggestions include "The 2K0s," from Israel, "The Pre-Tens," from Kazakhstan, "The Digital Decade," from Zimbabwe, and the "Globacade" from Ghana. Nixing the Oh-ohs The New York Times language columnist William Safire, a man famous for having an opinion on practically everything, has dodged the decade-naming question for 10 years. In his columns, Safire is sure how the years of the first decade should be pronounced: Twenty oh one, twenty oh two, etc. But he's not sure of anything else. "I have been calling the first decade of the third millennium of the Common Era the Zippy Zeros, but that is only a working title," Safire wrote in 1989. He advises waiting until the end of the new decade before deciding what to call it. "(I know) that's a cop-out, but I cannot here and now solve this problem for the entire English-speaking world," he wrote. The Futurist magazine actually did a poll on this in 1993. The results showed that most respondents (67%) prefer to use the Two Thousands, written 2000s. Nothing else - the Twenty-Ohs, the Oh-Ohs, the Double-Ohs, the Zeros - even came close. Cynthia Wagner, managing editor of the trend-tracking magazine, predicts the right term will become obvious just by frequency of use. "It happens when it happens,'' she says, pointing to the ubiquity of Y2K, or Year 2000, which now refers to the computer bug that threatens to freeze millions of computers around the planet when the clock strikes midnight on December 31, 1999. "It started out just a few years ago with a variety of names - like the Millennium Bomb or the Millennium Bug - and then it ended up Y2K because everyone understood it," Wagner says. And it fits in a headline, too. This concept apparently eludes the editors of The Chicago Manual of Style, the longtime style guide for publishers from the University of Chicago Press. "It says you should spell it all out as 'the first decade of the 21st century,' '' reports Phyllis Franklin, head of the Modern Language Association of professional English teachers. Roaring 2000s At least one major publishing house, Simon & Schuster, has gone on record: The new book by financial wizard Harry Dent Jr., is called The Roaring 2000s: Building the Wealth and Lifestyle You Desire in the Greatest Boom in History. Gerald Celente, a professional trend-tracker, says he's getting "loads of calls" on this question from befuddled reporters and editors, but his own choice of term came by default. "We're calling it The First Decade," Celente says. "What else can you call it? I haven't seen anybody come up with anything else that's quick and makes sense." Maybe that will catch on, maybe not. Even if it does, there's another problem: What are we going to call the decade after the first decade of the 21st century? But that's another story. |
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