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Totally stupid petty annoyance #27: The way people say the years of this century.

What am I talking about exactly? Well, this year in 2007 and when people say it out loud, they say it as two-thousand and seven. I don't like it to the point that it grates on me. Why is this so? Well, let's go back to the years of last century, the 1900s. When it was 1999, we said it like nineteen ninety-nine, NOT one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine. So, it is my firm belief that we ought to be saying 2007 as twenty-oh-seven.

Unfortunately, I appear to be quite alone in this belief as when I attempt to say twenty-oh-seven in any sort of public setting, I am greeted with arched eyebrows and glances that suggest what's HIS problem? As a result of this foolish, wrong and unruly stigma, I have resorted to saying simply "oh-seven" or occasionally "aught-seven" if I'm feeling like a one hundred year old prospector or perhaps an aged vaudevillian.

Personally, I blame 2001, A Space Odyssey. When the film came out in the 1960s, members of the media needed to know how to pronounce the title, and after much debate and throwing about of ideas, they settled on two thousand and one, for some reason, thus ruining the out loud pronunciation of the first ten years of this century. Damn you, Stanley Kubrick! Damn you straight to Hell!!

So, I'm officially starting William the Bloody's Campaign to Get People to Pronounce the Year Properly. Appropriate penalties for violations to deemed on a case by case basis by members of the campaign. Anything from a whap upside the head to a whack in the crotch with a ladle is perfectly acceptable. Say it with me now: TWENTY-OH-SEVEN. That's right. Now go and spread the word!

William (pronunciation purist)

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