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Here's an interesting question:

"Having left the Nineties, what do we call the present decade?"

"It's up to the public to decide," says Elspeth Summers, senior lexicographer at Collins English Dictionaries. "Whatever catches people's imagination over the next couple of years will stick. There's no public body that makes an official declaration."


Many names have been suggested, including:

'the Noughties'
'the MMs'
'the 20 Hundreds'
'the Zeros'
"The Two Thousands"
"The Double Zeros"
"The Double Oh's"
"The 2K's"
"The Thousands"
"The Oh-Oh's"
"The O-Zone"
"The Millenni-os"
"The Aughts"
"Naughty Aughties"
"Naughty Naughts"
"Naughty Noughties"
"The Dread Noughts"
"The Silly Mille"
"The Y Worry Years"
"OOs" (pron. ooze)
"The Zeros"

What will we tell our grandchildren?