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twenty double aught
aught? nought or zero or oh, surely.
Or just could have gone along with Prince's suggestion of two thousand zero zero.
villa-ru-
aught? nought or zero or oh, surely.
From Wikipedia:
Decade names with a leading zero (e.g., 1900 to 1909) were pronounced as "aught" or "nought". This leads to the year 1904 ('04) being spoken as "[nineteen] aught four" or "[nineteen] nought four". Another acceptable pronunciation includes "[nineteen] oh four".
...as Douglas Coupland pointed out early in the decade, "[Noughties] won't work because in America the word 'nought' is never used for zero, never ever".[19]
I use “Aught Four” for extra old American bloke points.
Eseman
Mostly agreed but twenty double aught doesn’t sound right.