Radio stations are still saying they play music from the "Eighties, Nineties, and Today".  When we will we name this decade? 

Yes, I know this was talked about to death back on the eve of the millenium.  Know-it-alls suggested we call this decade the "aughties" or "naughties" since that's what people often used to refer to the decade 1900-1909.  But language arises spontaneously, it doesn't come about by fiat or by vote.  So what name will spontaneously arise for 2000-2009? 

Prediction is hard, especially abut the future.  But I'm going to put money on "the Ohs".  We call 2001 "oh-one", so, looking back from the teens, what else do we call the decade of "oh-oh" through "oh-nine"?  ("Oh-ties" is another possibility, but seems less likely, since I don't think this decade will be named until the teens, and looking back from the teens, Oh-ties makes less sense, since "teens" doesn't end in "-ties".)

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