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chrisweekly
1y ago
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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". I wonder if it'll catch on and spread.
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nailer
1y ago
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‘Noughties’ was popular in Australia from 2010 onwards. Radio stations would “play the best from the eighties nineties noughties and today”.
notahacker
1y ago
Common in Britain too, also appears in the opening lines of the Wikipedia description for the decade and the OED.
harvey9
1y ago
The fact that you never saw it before suggests it did not catch on and spread during the last 25 years.
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