Why don't we say twenty o eight?

Question

Why don't we say twenty o eight instead of two thousand and eight? When it was 1998 we would say nineteen ninety eight. What year will we start saying it the old way again?

Answer 1

Yeah,it's wierd, isn't it? History books refer to it as nineteen o eight in the last centruy, not nineteen hundred and eight, so why's it different this time round???

Answer 2

oh my god - a news reporter said it yesterday and it made me think the same thing! Some peeps obviously do say it.

Answer 3

By 2010 we will say it seperated.

Answer 4

No it really doesn't make much sense to say it that way. I think we`ll probably say twenty o eleven....

Answer 5

lol... becase you are not any more child now. you grow up and you should say in right way.

Answer 6

yeh that would be so totally kool but we can dream can't we....

Answer 7

what the **** u talkin about?