Language Oddities

[A Black Falcon]

Let's do something boring and list weirdnesses in English.

Ever notice that we used to say "1984" as "nineteen eighty-four" but in the present day we say "2008" as "two-thousand eight" instead of "twenty oh-eight"?

Will we still be doing this when 2010 rolls around, or will it still be "two-thousand ten" instead of "twenty ten"?

Actually, this is kind of an issue of debate... I've heard people say that we should be actually saying "twenty-oh-eight" or something, instead of "two thousand eight", and that makes historical and language sense (looking at how centuries have usually been called), but "two thousand" has stuck in most people's minds, so I don't know if "we should change" will actually change anything.