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Is this Two Thousand Eighteen, or Twenty Eighteen?
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How will you refer to the new date on this year's coins?
I'm sticking with Two Thousand Eighteen, because the new century was Two Thousand. The century before that was Nineteen Hundred, so it moved on to Nineteen 01, etc. But, since 2000 was referred to as Two Thousand instead of Twenty Hundred, I figure we are stuck with that as the format. We will be able to switch back to the old way once we get to 2100, or Twenty-One Hundred.
And I wasn't even drinking tonight.... 
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I'm on the west coast so neither one yet
Don't get your hopes up. Here on the east coast I don't feel any different so far.
Jewish calendar? Buddhist calendar? Islamic calendar? Tibetan calendar?
It doesn't have to be 2018 at all.
In Arizona it is still two thousand seventeen.
yes.
HST it is 4 hours before 2018
I like twenty 18
1918 wasn't called one thousand nine hundred eighteen, 1818 wasn't called one thousand eight hundred eighteen.......... so why would we call 2018 two thousand eighteen.
To me, it goes to reason that it is twenty eighteen, just like it was nineteen eighteen, seventeen eighteen, sixteen eighteen..........
Also, 1900 was called nineteen hundred, 1800 was eighteen hundred..........so 2000 was to me, twenty hundred.
Additionally, the current century is the twenty first, as we completed the twentieth century in 2000. 1 Jan 1901 - 31 Dec 2000 was the twentieth century.
Edited to add:
Hundred in Latin, is "Centum", so "century" is a period of 100 years. If the year 2000 was the last year of the twentieth century (twenty hundreds), then it should be properly called twenty hundred.
Steve
I used two thousand for 2000 through 2009 (two thousand nine). After 2009 for me it became twenty ten, twenty eighteen, etc.
Jeff
That approach is consistent, but unfortunately most people didn't say twenty hundred, but instead said two thousand. Therefore, the next year was two thousand one, then two thousand two, and so on. I am not sure we can just arbitrarily switch to the format of twenty eighteen. Some people have been fighting the tide for the past few years but it is of dubious legality. Maybe an Act of Congress would make it possible, but we might need a United Nations resolution in order to get the world on board.
The fact that all those people have been saying it that way, doesn't mean they are right
and if you know me, you'd know that I am all about consistency 
Steve
Twenty eighteen for me. Saying two thousand eighteen does not sound right...just watch Alex Trebec on any jeopardy. Yet I would never NOT say two thousand two.
I hate to admit this, but the answer actually both for me. I find myself saying either one.
Twenty eighteen. One less syllable to pronounce, which can save you a few seconds each day that can be put to productive use, like buying another coin.
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Not going to spend anytime thinking about it.
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I'm going with two thousand eighteen and two thousand 19 but then... thinking about it... I will it probably switch to twenty twenty and then twenty twenty-one.
I see mentioned that they changed at 2010 but I am still using the two thousand currently. But 20 20 will roll pretty smooth.
Sounds like that news program we've all heard 2020. That was pronounced twenty-twenty. That will most certainly be the turning point.
That's what got us here! In the year 2000 we all said two thousand instead of the clunky longer syllabled twenty hundred.
Music has the same conundrum. Music from 1950 was referred to as the Fifties. 1970 was referred to as the 70's. What happened when we reached 2000? The music from the 00's? How about music from 2010? Nobody refers to that decade as the tens. Right now are you listening to a radio station that plays all the hits and music from the Teens???
Trying to turn the conversation back toward coins....hmmm, every coin has a date. Wait? Is that true? Are there dateless coins? Not coins with worn off dates either....I know someone would come up with that one!! That does seem to be an unwritten law about coins, every one must have a date.
This is an issue that has not concerned me at all. It will be enough to retrain myself to write 2018 instead of 2017. I will use 'this year' and 'next year' and 'last year' in conversation.... that works. Any more and I will use the conversational reference 'five years ago', or the variation suitable to the reference. Problem solved... now, on to the next important item - po-tay-toes or po-tah-toes???
Cheers, RickO
Right on Ricko. U say mater, I say mater
When it comes time to paying your taxes...on paper either or will do.
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Wouldn't it be MMXVIII ? I may be a little rusty...
I'm going with two aught eighteen.
Sorry............I stopped counting at 1999.
Pete
I like the symmetry (parallel structure) argument ...
1818 = eighteen eighteen
1918 = nineteen eighteen
2018 = twenty eighteen
Plus you save 1 syllable when speaking it ... twenty eighteen is only 4 syllables ... while two thousand eighteen is 5 syllables.
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Why not just go with 18, and let someone else worry about it when Y2.1K rolls around.
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This is the way I look at it...take one hundred years away from the present date and how was it pronounced? I would be willing to wager that very few...if any...pronounced it as one thousand nine hundred and eighteen.
Twenty-eighteen.
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