While talking with my friend and co-worker Tyler the other day, he told me a rumor that he had heard about one of the studios here at the station and how it would be renovated in the year 2010.
Tyler did not say “twenty ten” or “two thousand ten” when referring to this year.
He said, “I heard it would happen in oh-ten.”
And then he corrected himself, but I’ve caught myself often saying “oh-ten” when referring to the year 2010. Makes sense, right? Oh-eight, oh-nine, oh-ten.
Just like writing the previous year on your checks in early January, I think oh-ten might become a common way to refer to 2010 before we come up with a “real” shorthand way of expressing that year.
There will be no oh-eleven, however.