What Decade Are We In?

[Isabel_Knight]

We had the sixties, the seventies, the eighties and nineties....

So what's this?

The noughties?

:sarcasm

Isabel :pinkfishy

[dreya]

Here it is two thousand two, and still we haven't nicknamed our decade....will it forever remain nameless? :cheesy
What did they call it last time? Like, when it was nineteen-oh-one, did they call it anything?

[cora]

That's a very good question! It didn't occur to me that this decade has no name until I read this post. :cute

[infinitepiphany]

i read in readers digest in the late nineties that it would be refered to as the "naughts."

i have no idea if that stuck or not...

michelle

[karemore]

THANK YOU!!!!! This has been bothering me for the past several years.

NO ONE has the answer.

The radio stations make a joke of it..but eventually someone is going to have to come up with something.

I will feel better when they do.
Karen

[Anonymous_Member006]

i vote for the naughties coz im a naughty :pinkfishy!

they could be called the hundreds or the zeros...

[Jik]

I'm not sure if they actually referred to the early nineteen hundreds by a decade, this includes the teen years too.

I think the first decade they singled it out by each year - aught two, aught three and the second decade was more or less referenced by the beginning of World War One (The Great War) or by who was President at the time.

Think about it, we have the Roaring Twenties but when it comes to the Thirties we don't have a name for it because it was the era of the Great Depression. My grandmother is almost eighty-nine and this is how she refers to that time period and I've heard many other older Americans refer to it that way too.

The same goes for the Forties - they are more referenced by the Second World War and the Roosevelt Years - at least here in America.

It isn't until the fifties that we started looking at decades as really unique individual entities. I believe that is because of the major changes that started occurring back then. TV, rock and roll, etc.

And it goes on for the sixties, seventies, and so forth.

Whew, how's that for an opinion and with a little history thrown in?

Joy