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There's a strange debate going on in certain areas of the internet over the proper way to refer to the upcoming year. The contention is that saying "two thousand and two" is a change from the norm. For the past century (and by extension, the millenium), the year was called "nineteen blankety blank". You know, like that famous movie (I mean, book... book, yeah) 1984. When you read that, you said in your head, "nineteen eighty-four". Not George Orwell's One Thousand, Nine Hundred, Eighty-Four. And Prince didn't want to party until it was "One Thousand, Nine Hundred, Ninety-Nine".
But, continuing my examples of popular media, society has taken its lead from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yes, you said "two thousand and one". Not "twenty hundred and one". But you know, no one says "twenty hundred". If you had $2,000, would you say that you had twenty hundred dollars? No. So what the hell is the problem here? This isn't really even an issue.
I'm just glad that people aren't using "aught".
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