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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
aught? nought or zero or oh, surely.
Or just could have gone along with Prince's suggestion of two thousand zero zero.