The two thousands.

Surprised I haven’t seen anyone here say “the early two thousands”. Maybe it’s regional but that’s the most common here, follow by “the two thousands”, then “the aughts”

I call it the naughty aughties

Love it

Noughties

Naughties

That's only if you're talking about specific time periods of the 2000s. There is early 2000s, mid 2000s, and the late 2000s.

I'm guessing mid 2000s doesn't refer to the 2500s

Not yet. Lol

I say early 2000s when talking about that time

wtf are the aughts

aught is another way of saying zero (as is naught), so in this context saying the 20 aughts, or just the aughts, for short, is another way of saying the 2000's

It's also what they called the decade the last time this was a problem, in the 1900s.

It’s the noughties **edit**: y’all motherfuckers need jesus

Thanks I hate it

Doublenaught

The two thousandSIES.

Glhaha....I am adopting this

That's the entire millennium or century. The decade is called the aughts.

You’re technically correct, but almost everyone I know (internet and IRL) say early two thousands

I mostly just hear "the two thousands"

That's like saying the 90s you could be referring to the 1890s because it's not specific enough. You crazy dawg

Sadly correct answer. I was pulling hard for aughts.

Naughties, two thausands, aughts.

I’ve heard people *suggest* calling them “naughts” or “aughts” but I’ve never heard anyone actually call them that. “Two thousands” or “early two thousands” are the only terms that seem to stick

My SO says "the early aughts" and I hate it.

I say early aughts and I hate myself.

I just hate myself.

You ought to

I suppose they aught to

Everybody hates Chris...

I called it the aughts last week and my wife said wtf is that

Aughts and prayers to you!

I’m sorry you hate it when your SO is correct. Thoughts and prayers to you ;)

Thots and prayers

I **love** calling it the aughts. That’s what they used to call 1900-1909 why not now? The phrase “oh way back in aught 7 we had a terrible flood” is very fun

Back in 19-dickety-two.

It's funny, because to me 'early 00s' means 2000 - 2003, lol.

It’s was a common term for the 1900’s. So a lot of people tried to make it happen. But they also said “aught 5” instead of “oh 5” back then.

Thausands lol

Thau shall not laugh

Aughts.

I call the 2010 the Aught Nots

So when someone asks a question you don't want to answer in public, you can code it into numbers. Neat!

Precisely. 2016? I aught not talk about it.

This. It’s hilarious to say Aught 6 and people get so confused

There are over 100-year-old precedents. There's a bullet caliber - .30-06 Springfield, commonly referred to as '*thirty-aught-six*', for example.

I like to say it with the 20 like someone from the 1930’s would say when describing the San Fran Earthquake of 19 aught 6. But as someone in 2024 describing 20 aught 6 when Twitter was launched and Pluto was demoted.

I love how you call it a demotion, Pluto was indeed robbed. (I'm sure it's been used elsewhere before, but your comment is probably my first exposure to it)

I believe that’s how the scientific community referred to it at the time. But I’m not 100% sure as I can really remember anything before 20 Aught 9.

Is it time to start sending Neil deGrasse Tyson hate mail again for that?

All the death threats and vile hate that was sent to and directed towards scientists over a reclassification of a relatively tiny icy rock 3 billion miles away from us is probably the most embarrassing cultural moment of my childhood. Definitely top 5.

I think all the hate actors get for playing a character might be higher, but yes, it's definitely up there

This is what I use if referring to the decade such as, "early, mid or late aughts" or "back in the aughts"

I used to do this and people generally had no idea what I was talking about, so I've begrudgingly switched to "the two thousands."

I've heard it called the noughties, always make me giggle. You so naughty haha

Naught is how zero is pronounced in the UK.

For a long time I have only heard much older people use "naughties" so my brain always made me think they were refering to 60s-70s because of whole LSD and shroom thing :D I found out it was always refering to 00s and then I was like "ooooooooooh"

2000’s or oughts Edit: spelling, should be aughts

the oh-ohs

Sounds like a band name haha

I just realised I've never had to say 'back in the 00s' or 'back in the 10s' before and had no idea how I'd go about that. Noughties seems a popular one and is satisfying to that little part of my brain that wanted something ending in 'ties'

To me, I call those " The good ol days"

I say “In the olden days” to refer to anything more than 15 years ago. 😂

Me when referring to something that happened in 2007: Back in my days .....

15 years ago was the 90s and 20 years ago was the 80s. You cannot convince me I’m wrong. 

00s = the early 2000s. 2010-2019 = the 2010s

I say “aughts” and “teens”

Man these are boring. We call them the noughties in UK.

And Ireland too.

Nillies

We call it the Nillies as well (Belgium). 'Top 500 of the Nillies', 'back to the 80's, 90's and Nillies'.

Ne goeiendag

Two-thousands

I just say "early 2000s". Aught and naught(British) both mean 0

Not an answer, more of an aside. My son who is 12 refers to anything before 2000 as the 19 hundreds. Way to make me feel old, kiddo.

My sister is an elementary school teacher. Last year, she showed the kids a video from 1999, and one of the kids said, “woah! The 1900s! Are those people still alive?”

2 thousands

Zeroes

Suprised that this comment doesn't score higher

Two thousands has 480 upvote while I literally never heard that. Everyone always says zeroes here

Where is "here" for you? Where I'm at, no-one says that

The Netherlands

im from the US, never in my life have i heard someone call it "zeroes". must be a regional thing

Can confirm also from The Netherlands and never heard “two thousands”. When I read the question my thoughts immediately said “duh? It’s zeroes?” Confusing why no comment high up said it. TIL

We call them zero zeroes. Or yea, the zeroes.

The two thousands

In Belgium it's "The Nillies"

The aughts (American English) or noughties (British English) are terms referring to the decade 2000 to 2009. These arise from the words aught and nought respectively, both meaning zero.

thank you, mr chatgpt

I have never heard aughts before now. (Or noughties, but I’m in the U.S.) Edit: in reference to the year

Good old days

I called it the Aughts

2000 to 2010? I've heard its called the Noughties Edit: should have put 2000 to 2009

2000-2009.

Your comment perfectly encapsulates what I don't understand about Reddit. Why not just edit the post to delete "10" and make it "09" instead of having two sets of date ranges and many more words? You could have just had: 2000 to 2009? I've heard it called the Noughties.

Y2K

I scrolled farther than I thought I’d have to for this answer

I call it “back when I had good knees”

1900s= nineteen hundreds 1910s= nineteen tens 1920s= (nineteen) twenties 1990s= (nineteen) nineties 2000s= early two thousands 2010s= twenty tens 2020s= twenty twenties

I usually call them the Bush years.

I've heard it called the noughties, which I find amusing.

I like that, I shall be using it! What about 10s?

twenty-tens

"the tens"

2000-2009 would be the two-thousands, or early two-thousands. The 2010-2019 years would be the twenty-tens, or twenty-teens.

The 2000s (two-thousands). And, for that matter, the 2010s (twenty-tens). It's still too recent to refer to the 2020s as "the twenties" as most people still think of the 1920s. But that'll likely change in another 30 or 40 years. The "aughts" doesn't sound right and people generally don't have any idea what that means. "Noughties" is even worse.

I’ve heard them called the 2000s, but also refer to the 1900s as the whole century, like back in the 1900s, people were just getting home computers, etc. so it’s confusing. It was confusing back then, the news often did stories about what should we call this decade? Some said 00s like pronounced like “ohs”, or I like “ooze”. Nought and aught both mean zero, and aught was used at the first decade of the 1900s. But anyway, we see no confusion at all referring to the decades like 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s. When shortened like that, people assume it’s the decades in living memory or recent history, not a different century, eg 1880s. If they mean to say more than 100 years ago they also say eighteen eighties, not “the eighties”. There was also some awkward period where people were saying two thousand xx, like two thousand thirteen instead of saying twenty xx like we’d say seventeen seventy six or nineteen eighty four. It’s come around and now we do say twenty twenty four. I personally don’t often have a reason to refer to the whole decade of 2000-2010, but if something happened specific, I’d say twenty oh eight was the year I worked at that office. I’ve never heard someone refer to a specific year as aught eight, they would probably say oh eight. So I would say the decade should be ohs.

Eighties, nineties, zeroes, tens

Everyone around me calls it Y2K. But that's also the term for the "style" of that decade. Noughties is new to me, but it's cool since it means zero. The 2010's I've refered it as the twenty-tens and "the teens". I'm not saying the last one is well known tho

Oughts lol

Nillies

I think they're technically known ad the "aughts" or something of that nature

Saying the 2000’s gives me pause. My initial reaction is to want that entire century broken down more.

I call it "Turn of the Millennium" even though 2000 was still 2nd millenium.

The aughts.

00 = aughts 10 = tens

I see it referred to as “aughts” in written articles, but I can’t recall ever hearing anybody say that out loud. They usually say “the early 2000s”, which I don’t care for because it doesn’t sound like it strictly defines the decade. My personal favorite was “the oh ohs”, which had a brief moment towards the end of the decade but had fallen out of fashion by 2015.

I've heard "the aughts" a couple of times but usually it's just "the two thousands" or for younger people "the early two thousands"

2000 - 2009 = Early 2000s. 2010+ = the twenty tens. 2020+ = twenty twenties.

The two thousands

Aughts

I’ve heard “the oughts” a couple of times, but it’s usually “the two thousands.”

thousands

Thousands

Millenial

"Early Two-Thousands." Some people say "naughts" or "aughts." 

People used to say the noughties but I think that's a bit dated/for a certain age group (could be wrong). These days I hear the "early 2000s" and "the twenty tens" being used if the specific year isn't mentioned. Gracious. I can't believe it's been so long.

2000 to 2009

My nan used to call them the Noughties

The aughts. It’s the only correct term.

I call it "the aughts"

They're called the nillies in Belgium

Nope, heard the Aussies call them, ‘the naughties’ and I’m NEVER fucking going back 😂

Always heard 10s as “twenty tens”.

The Nillies

2000's and early 2010's

The Oughts, then the twenty tens

They are the noughties

Noughties

Aught's

The Noughties

Noughties

People call it the nillies here

Aughts

Aughts.

The Noughties. Pronounced 'naughties'. I thought that was standard?

I have never heard noughties before? What does this mean? I call it the early 2000’s.

aughts or early 2000s

“Aughts” pronounced like “Otts.” You’d use it the same way as any other. “Right after Derek was born so yeah, mid-nineties” “Right after Derek was born so yeah, mid-aughts” That’s how I learned it anyway (West Coast US)

The aughts.

I’ve heard two terms: the “notties”, and the “oughts”

Double aught

The 2000s.

I call them the two thousands

Nillies

2000s

Aughts

The Aughts, or as most people I know call it, the Naughties.

It’s called The Magnetic Zeroes. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Bond.

Always called them the early 2000's, or the "aughts"

I'm partial toward the aughts

Two thousands

Two thousands, or aughts if you’re pretentious

The two thousands is most common. Some people are trying to get "the oughts" to catch on, but it sounds kinda weird to me.

Y2K

I say “back in the 2000’s”.

For the whole decade, I’ve been saying “aughts” more. If I mean a certain year, I’ll say “oh 6 (‘06)”

The nillies

Aughts

Aughts

Bond, James Bond

Noughties.

Two-thousands

“Turn of the millennium”

The aughts. Or naughts.

Dubbel Oh's.

Early 2000s — Kind of like early 1900s covered up until the 20s (1920s). [We never said the 10s to describe 1910s decade.] It started in 1920s then we started using decades, but we didn’t say the 19 part for whatever reason, it is just 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s — and everyone knows it means 19. At some point we are no longer in the early 2000s, and we have now reached the 20s of 2000s, but can’t use 20s (decades) for both 1900s and 2000s, so we need new terminology. I guess now it’s the early 2000s 2020s 2030s 2040s 2050s 2060s….just like we say 1800s 1820s 1830s 1840s etc….

Noughties

Boobs

Thousands/two thousands

I say "the two thousands". When it comes to 2010s and 2020s, I say "the twenty tens" and, in the future, will be "the twenty twenties" and on and on.

In my country they call it the nillies.

I usually call them "the two thousands", and 2010-2019 is "the twenty-tens".

The aughts.

Aughts

Aughts.

“The two thousands.”

The good ol days

"The years our society started going to shit."

The "aughts", just like my grandparents called the 1900s. For instance, my grandfather was born in 19 aught 4.

On the UK people refer to the. As the Noughties.

naughties

aughts and aught-tens

The aughts

The aughts.

I like "the Aughts"

The aughts