Setting aside whatever title is going to be given to the ten years which characterize the events, I think the decade should be called "the two thousands" - just as 1900-1910 are referred to as "the nineteen hundreds".

For some reason, it really bugs me that people are calling the years in this decade "Two thousand and five, two thousand and six" etc. and not "twenty o five", "twenty o six" (as we refer to 1905 "nineteen o five"). I will let people get away with it until 2009 because, admittedly, people also did refer to 1905 etc. as "nineteen hundred and five" etc., but once we reach 2010 I will be very cross whenever I hear people saying "two thousand and ten" and not "twenty ten" - so be warned !

- jeanie ;)