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Love the redundancy of "90ties", but what's the etymology of "00ers"?


I pronounce "00ers" as "zeroes"

Maybe it should be "00es"?


Noughties


Augts?


But then, following the pattern it'd be 00ts or 00ghts...


two-thousanders? Not sure if anybody actually says that




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