"Well kiddos, back in the nineteen hundreds, things were done a bit differently”

I think I'm good with the nineteen hundreds.

This all day. Have to get to the next decade to start having "the 20's" replace the 1920's in references to history. Only other way was for people talking about future tense of things to come. Young Gen Z and Gen Alpha will have the easiest time in just thinking of this decade as "the 20's" since they haven't been around for last century.

Fair, the past two decades just don't have the same "ring" as "the 20's" or any of the next ones. I still remember people realizing that they never really knew what the "20's/30's/etc" naming for the first decade of the 1900's after the 90's ended. I feel like local news and other media made points to tell people "the noughties/oughts". So much attention really put on the simple shortening of everything after "20's" last century. Even "the teens" just doesn't have the same "ring" to it, and since 10-12 aren't "teens".

Which sucks since the 20's haven't been "roaring" economically. Though maybe media will still try to make "the roaring 20's" a thing by talking about how mad people have been.

Now that I think about it, everyone I knew who was born in the 20s is dead.