What are the Aughts?
Now that this decade is already on its way out, being asked not to let the door hit it in the rear, you should know what that goofy word is that people have been using to describe it. While there is no such thing as an official name for a decade, most people have settled on the “aughts” to describe the period from 2000 – 2009.
Also used are the “zeroes,” the “nils,” and other attempts at getting the point across that it’s the decade with a zero in it. The “aughts” seems to be the most universal, possibly because it became the word to describe 1900 – 1909 after the fact and that no one has come up with anything better. 1
“Aught” means zero, and it rhymes with “naught.” Now if someone can come up with something better than the “tens” or “twenty-tens” for the NEXT decade, drop me a line!
Read on:
- Slate.com – Name that decade by Timothy Noah 12/27/04 ↩
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