If you've ever wondered what the next decade should be called as
this one draws to a close, someone has come up with a prize-winning
answer: the one-ders.
Website news.com.au gave A$2,010 ($2,564) to reader Adam Vujic for
naming the decade after a six-week long competition as the
so-called noughties, or the years spanning 2000 to 2009, come to an
end.
"And after wading through more than 3,500 entries, we can now
announce the winner in our competition to name the next decade,"
the website said.
"We needed something that communicated a feeling, not just
denoted a number.
"Honourable mentions must go to 'tentions' and 'decnos'. Close, but
not quite there. And other entries - tweens, tennies, twenteens -
were so popular they had to be discounted."
News.com.au said it chose Vujic's answer because of the optimistic
rationale behind the name: there is hope for many scientific,
humanitarian and environmental breakthroughs and the inclusion of
the number one in every year.
The competition was open to Australian residents, who had to come
up with a name and give a reason for it using 25 words or less.
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