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[–] Bubs12@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Because that’s referring the 2000’s decade. In terms of centuries, I would say we are still in the early 2000’s and that does feel odd to say.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I rather meant how it sounds. It's in the "hundreds".

Two thousands.
Twenty hundreds.

"Early twenty hundreds" does kind of make it sound like we live in 2224 instead while "early two thousands" sounds like 2002.
I could have written it better.

[–] Bubs12@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Well you also wouldn’t say ten hundreds for the 1000’s. I think it’s just a quirk of the being the first century in a millennia.

[–] Skydancer@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

Early second millennium CE

[–] apostrofail@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

the 2000s* decade

early 2000s*