Alleged TLOS demos...

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

I heard "naughts".

[Susan]

His back was still healthy then...the '70s are a long way from the '00s [pronounced AWTS].

"awts"? I've just always called this decade the 2000s.

The people living in the years 1900 to 1909 referred to that decade as the "aughts" or the "aughties", aught meaning zero. Many people refer to this decade as the "two-thousands", but "aughts" is just as correct.

They sometimes called that zero-decade the aughty-aughts, as well.  And it sounds strange because it has almost an archaic sound to it.  But i assure you, it's legit!

[Ron]

It's legit, anybody who's ever went hunting has likely heard of "Double aught buckshot" and "triple aught buckshot", meaning .00 and .000 size pellets in the shells.  It's just an old fashioned way of speaking. 

[elnombre]

I always wondered why no-one calls it the twenty hundreds - after all, everyone now refers to events from 1900-1909 as taking place in the nineteen hundreds.

Maybe because it sounds sh*t.

[lance]

 

[Andrew G. Doe]

... or the management might actually be telling the truth?

Hmmmmm... interesting concept. I'll examine the possibility. 

The ultimate nutty conspiracy theory.

OK, possibility examined and summarily dismissed. 

[Alex]

It's legit, anybody who's ever went hunting has likely heard of "Double aught buckshot" and "triple aught buckshot", meaning .00 and .000 size pellets in the shells.  It's just an old fashioned way of speaking. 

Maybe that's where the name for the gun called a "30-aught-6" comes from. .30 caliber, invented in 1906. That's just a guess, though.

[tenchijin2]

Maybe that's where the name for the gun called a "30-aught-6" comes from. .30 caliber, invented in 1906. That's just a guess, though.

Yes, that's correct. The gun (or cartridge, more correctly) is still referred to alternately as ".30 '06".

There's an episode of the Simpsons where Bart breaks into turn of the century gold-prospector speech. If I remember he utilizes the "aught" as "0" in character.

Anyway, carry on.

Aric