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- noun The first
decade of a century: from 1900 to 1909, 2000 to 2009, etc.
Etymologies
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The Met Office figures indicate that the years since 2000 - the "noughties" - were on average about 0. 18C (0.32F) warmer than years in the 1990s; and that since the 1970s, each decade has seen an increase of about the same scale.
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A collaboration between the resurgent Queen of R&B and the most innovative urban producers of the noughties should be a musical event.
Watch The Morrissey The Youngest Was The Most Loved Video 2006
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Ireland's property boom-bust during the noughties was a textbook example of what can happen if a country loses control of its own monetary policy - rates were too low early in the
The Guardian World News Larry Elliott 2010
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Ireland's property boom-bust during the noughties was a textbook example of what can happen if a country loses control of its own monetary policy - rates were too low early in the decade, leading to a colossal misallocation of resources away from exports towards construction, whose share of the economy more than doubled from 6% to 14%
Slugger O'Toole Brian Walker 2010
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Ireland's property boom-bust during the noughties was a textbook example of what can happen if a country loses control of its own monetary policy - rates were too low early in the
economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk Larry Elliott 2010
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Ireland's property boom-bust during the noughties was a textbook example of what can happen if a country loses control of its own monetary policy - rates were too low early in the decade, leading to a colossal misallocation of resources away from exports towards construction, whose share of the economy more than doubled from 6% to 14%
Slugger O'Toole Mick Fealty 2010
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Ireland's property boom-bust during the noughties was a textbook example of what can happen if a country loses control of its own monetary policy - rates were too low early in the decade, leading to a colossal misallocation of resources away from exports towards construction, whose share of the economy more than doubled from 6% to 14%
Slugger O'Toole Pete Baker 2010
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Ireland's property boom-bust during the noughties was a textbook example of what can happen if a country loses control of its own monetary policy - rates were too low early in the decade, leading to a colossal misallocation of resources away from exports towards construction, whose share of the economy more than doubled from 6% to 14%
Slugger O'Toole Pete Baker 2010
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Ireland's property boom-bust during the noughties was a textbook example of what can happen if a country loses control of its own monetary policy - rates were too low early in the decade, leading to a colossal misallocation of resources away from exports towards construction, whose share of the economy more than doubled from 6% to 14%
Slugger O'Toole Pete Baker 2010
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Ireland's property boom-bust during the noughties was a textbook example of what can happen if a country loses control of its own monetary policy - rates were too low early in the decade, leading to a colossal misallocation of resources away from exports towards construction, whose share of the economy more than doubled from 6% to 14%
Slugger O'Toole Mick Fealty 2010
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I spent five years in the early noughties as the editor of the design column for IEEE Software magazine. In the late 90s I wrote a column for Distributed Computing magazine.
About Martin Fowler 2023
chained_bear commented on the word noughties
According to the OED, the decade following the eighties and the nineties. Also known as the Noughts.
February 12, 2008
gangerh commented on the word noughties
So, if I've understood correctly, it would be the decade before the teens and the twenties. Which is now. Also, if it gets regarded as a decadent period (oops! a pun) would it be referred to as 'The Naughty Noughties'?
February 12, 2008
gangerh commented on the word noughties
This word brings to mind a favourite mini-campaign of mine, which is to rid the world of the cumbersome wording 'two thousand and ....' when referring to the years of this century. We didn't say 'one thousand nine hundred and......' last century.
This is a really time-consuming case of using a long word when a diminutive one will do. So for me it's now 'twenty-o-eight'.
We just have to get this new habit rolling before 'two thousand one hundred and.......'!
February 12, 2008
gangerh commented on the word noughties
If nought else, posterity demands it.
February 12, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word noughties
Actually, gangerh, the decade before the twenties is the teens. Which is not the current decade.
(also, a friendly aside... did you know you can edit your own comments?)
February 12, 2008
gangerh commented on the word noughties
Ta muchly, chained_bear. Have added the teen word. But in my defence I could say that only had I used the words 'immediately before' would it have been incorrect. But I won't 'cause 'twould be somewhere 'twixt churlish and facetious.
February 12, 2008
gangerh commented on the word noughties
And I did get it wrong really.
February 12, 2008
john commented on the word noughties
“The "nillies" seems to lack the correct ring, while the "double-o"s is bound to be the intellectual property of Ian Fleming's estate.
Reggie Kray might favour the 'noughties' The "noughties" could be the one to head the - admittedly sorry - list of contenders.
And yet the "noughties" still sounds like a word East End villains might use to describe imprisonable activities - or even worse a polite, middle-class code for the reproductive organs.�?
BBC News, The noughties: So where are we now?, January 1, 2000
August 9, 2009