> There’s no good way to refer to 2000-2009, sorry. The author is wrong here. The correct way (at least in spoken West Coast American English) is the Twenty-au

> There’s no good way to refer to 2000-2009, sorry. The author is wrong here. The correct way (at least in spoken West Coast American English) is the Twenty-aughts. There is even a Wikipedia page dedicated to the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aughts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aughts If you want to be fancy you could spell it like the 20-aughts. I suppose there is no spelling it with only digits+s though, which maybe what the author was looking for.