Class of Twenty-eleven? Two-thousand eleven?

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<p>As a college Dean of Students, I wasn't quite sure what to call our entering class, so I just asked them. They favored "Two thousand-eleven" by about a three-to-one margin.</p>

<p>So perhaps that's what the public wants to call the next decade. It seems a little odd because we said "nineteen-ninety-nine" and "nineteen-eleven." But then "two-thousand" was clearly not "twenty-hundred," and we'd all seen the movie "Two-thousand one: A Space Odyssey."</p>

<p>But then again, I'm old enough to remember the Zager and Evans hit "In the year Twenty-five twenty-five." So when are we going to ditch the word "thousand" and get back to counting our way through the twenties?</p>

<p>I'd guess that once we get past "two thousand-nineteen" the next year will have to be "twenty-twenty." It'll be a Presidential election year and the candidates and media will all make puns about the "vision thing" as Bush 41 used to call it. After a year, it'll seem normal, I suppose, to go on to "twenty-twenty-one."</p>

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<p>"In the year Twenty-five twenty-five" was what came to mind even before I clicked on the thread. (And now it's stuck in my head!) </p>

<p>You make a good point for changing at 2020.</p>

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<p>I remember the first time I saw a date from this millenium.</p>

<p>back in 1989 when I opened an IRA, it had the year I would turn 59 and be able to see that money. the year was 2020. YIKES, more than half way there!</p>

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<p>And Sue, the bad news is the second fifteen years of a thirty-year span go by a LOT faster than the first fifteen years!</p>

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<p>Really? I've actually only heard "twenty-eleven," and I'm a student...</p>

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<p>"Class of oh-leven."</p>

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<p>I asked my son, an incoming college frosh. He says he's class of eleven.</p>

<p>Since there's probably not a lot of alumni around from the class of 1911, I think "class of eleven" is probably sufficient.</p>

<p>(I wonder how many James Bond fans were in this year's class of 007, lol).</p>