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I say twenty eleven. Seems simpler than Two Thousand Eleven.
@UpstateCait: She said the same thing. I guess habits die hard, eventually it'll transition (maybe in Twenty Twenty!).
@beekiss2: I see her logic though from 2000-2009 I always referred to the year as "two thousand ____" because saying "twenty-O-four" or whatever sounded weird. Since 2010 I've referred to it as "twenty ____". Though, if someone were to ask me what year I graduated in, I always say "O-four".
ETA: Wow, that was a long winded explanation that probably didn't make any sense. =)
I said 'twenty ten' too, so I'm definitely sticking with the easier route :).
Twenty eleven. So much easier to say plus the other makes me think of 2,000.11.
I have never heard it called "twenty-anything" so that sounds strange to me. Most folks call it two thousand something.
I hadn't put much thought into it. I think I mostly said two-thousand-ten but i guess twenty-eleven makes sense. Maybe I'll make the switch :)
Two thousand eleven. I didn't mind twenty ten, but I just don't like how the two "ee" sounds in "twentee eeleven" sound together.
1642 = sixteen forty-two
1987 = nineteen eighty-seven
1999 = nineteen ninety-nine
Seeing a pattern? Twenty eleven is the proper way to say it.
@deathbydesign:You make a very good point! But I still can't bring myself to say twenty eleven... It just doesn't sound right to me. :)
For some reason I never liked saying "twenty ten" and I feel the same way about "twenty eleven". Personal preference I guess!
@deathbydesign: Yeah but those are are all short for Sixteen HUNDRED forty-two, nineteen HUNDRED eighty-seven, etc. Twenty HUNDRED eleven sounds weird, so I'm sticking with two-thousand eleven. It's only one extra syllable 
I think we're used to "two thousand..." after 10 years of it. No one said "twenty-oh-seven" for 2007, for example. But I think gradually we'll move back to saying "twenty." Probably by 2020 we will all say "twenty twenty."
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How are you going to say it?
As a little back story, my future sister-in-law absolutely hates two thousand eleven. So she was telling us how to "correctly" say the new year. She said to us, "You wouldn't say Nineteen Hundred Ninety-Nine or One Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-Nine."