I am not word-weary, however, I am drawing a line in the sand with TV and radio sports media opionionators misusing English and who use verbose nomenclatures for 2010 such as “twenty-thousand-and ten” or “two-oh-one-oh”.

We word nerds know homo sapiens is so-named because of our intelligent philological word-patterns.

And since the English language is based on a clipped concept of word economy we should save print space and typing effort by reducing both speaking and listening time. We should use shorter words where they suffice rather than longer ones. This is not only more intelligent but leads to a faster way to delineate 2010. Being cheaper and faster are two things that should immediately appeal to commercial decision-makers.

So I’m using “twenty-ten”, only three vowels, rather than the jaw-wrenching “twenty-thousand-and ten”. This is more sustainable in terms of time and effort.

In addition, it has history on its side: we say “nineteen-ten” for 1910 rather that “one-nine-one-zero” and say “nineteen-forty-five” for 1945.

Sometimes less is more.