21st century

==Pronunciation==

There is a lack of general agreement over how to pronounce specific years of the 21st century in English. Academics have pointed out that the early years of previous centuries were commonly pronounced as, for example, "eighteen oh five" (for 1805) and "nineteen oh five" (for 1905).<ref name="preferMC">{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article376957.ece|title=Login|access-date=21 February 2007|archive-date=10 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220210233248/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/|url-status=live}}</ref> Generally, the [[2000s|early years of the 21st century]] were pronounced as in "two-thousand (and) five," with a change taking place around 2010, when pronunciations often shifted between the early-years form of "two-thousand and ten" and the traditionally more concise form of "twenty-ten."

The [[2010 Winter Olympics|Vancouver Olympics]], which took place in 2010, was being officially referred to by ''Vancouver 2010'' as "the twenty-ten Olympics".{{explain|date=October 2023}}