Why Do We Call the 2000s “the Aughts”?
Most decades are well-situated to name . It takes no cerebration at all to realize we ’re in the ‘ twenty , and just about every other decade is as easy : the ‘ 30s , ‘ 40s , ‘ 50s , ‘ 60s , ‘ 70s , ‘ 80s , ‘ 90s , and stripling . Then there ’s the first decennary of the twenty-first century . Why do we name to that period of time , from 2000–2009 , usingtheaughts ?...