What will we name the decade beginning in 2000?

[Pickle]

What will history call this decade? USA Today had a poll and 'The Aughts' won. I'm sure we can do better.

[vittoria]

I have read in newspapers the name "the naughties" but I think it's terrible.

[incitatus]

The Aughts might work in the states or in Northumberland, but for the rest of us it sounds like we should be doing something......how about the zilches?

[allen ives]

My parents, born 1900 and 1905, referred to the period 1900-1909 as the 'nineteen-hundreds', followed by the 'nineteen-tens', then the twenties, thirties and so on. Sometimes this was changed to 'it happened in oh-five, or oh-eight'. On this basis, 2000 to 2009 should be called the 'two-thousands', although it doesn't sound as natural as the previous century's version.

[artisan]

The period between 1900 and 1910 was known as 'the turn of the century'. Perhaps between 2000 and 2010 it will be the same.

[Gavin Mac]

The Oh-Oh's