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Before everyone clinks champagne glasses heralding the new decade, let’s get one thing clear about 2020: the only correct way to say it is twenty-twenty, not two thousand and twenty.

In fact, to all you miscreants who say two thousand and twenty, make it your New Year resolution to not. Forget trying to shed those holiday pounds or quitting that nasty habit. Instead, put some respect on the first year of the new decade by prioritizing the proper way to say it.

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I will admit, the second millennium threw the English-speaking world a curve after we had spent years, decades — centuries! — separating the years into two numbers. For example, 1976 is said as nineteen-seventy-six, not nineteen hundred and seventy six, and no one would even think to say one thousand nine hundred and seventy six — that’s just ungodly.

But enter the aughts and, along with Y2K fears, came an uncertainty about the standard way we had been saying years, well, for years.