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Huh, this is the first time I've seen "noughties" used to describe the first decade of the 2000s. Slightly amusing that it's surely pronounced like "naughties".
by chrisweekly 1y ago
Huh, this is the first time I've seen "noughties" used to describe the first decade of the 2000s. Slightly amusing that it's surely pronounced like "naughties". I wonder if it'll catch on and spread.
- harvey9 1y agoThe fact that you never saw it before suggests it did not catch on and spread during the last 25 years.
- nailer 1y ago‘Noughties’ was popular in Australia from 2010 onwards. Radio stations would “play the best from the eighties nineties noughties and today”.
- notahacker 1y agoCommon in Britain too, also appears in the opening lines of the Wikipedia description for the decade and the OED.