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Huh, this is the first time I've seen "noughties" used to describe the first decade of the 2000s. Slightly amusing that it's surely pronounced like "naughties". I wonder if it'll catch on and spread.


‘Noughties’ was popular in Australia from 2010 onwards. Radio stations would “play the best from the eighties nineties noughties and today”.


Common in Britain too, also appears in the opening lines of the Wikipedia description for the decade and the OED.


The fact that you never saw it before suggests it did not catch on and spread during the last 25 years.




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