Names of Generations/Decades
The "Manners" thread got me thinking about this, so here you go:
Names of Generations
2000/2001-Present - New Silent Generation or Generation Z
1980-2000 - Millennials or Generation Y
1965-1979 - Generation X
1946-1964 - Baby Boom
1925-1945 - Silent Generation
1900-1924 - G.I. Generation
Names of Decades
1890s - The Gay Nineties
1920 - The Roaring Twenties.
1930s - The Turbulent Thirties or Threadbare Thirties (I've also heard the Depression Era or Depression Decade)
1940s - The Flying Forties.
1950s - The Fabulous Fifities or the Nifty Fifties
1960s - The Swingin' Sixties (I've also heard the Psychadelic Sixties.)
1970s - The Disco Era (I've also heard the Me Decade.)
1980s - The Decade of Decadence or Greedy Eighties.
1990s - I can't really find anything conclusive ... a few floating around the net are the Disaster Decade, the Lost Decade ... but I've never heard anything really used. ??
2000s - I personally think the "Naughty Noughties" is hilarious. :p
And an interesting aside ... what will we call the decade of 2000-2009? Not as simple as before, when we had "the sixties" or "the nineties". Here are some proposed solutions, courtesy of Wikipedia. Will be interesting to see which one history chooses.
aughts, aughties, and double-aughts, from aught,which, like naught, means "zero"
nils and nillies, from nil, meaning "nothing"
2Ks, from the Greek term khilioi, meaning "thousand"
ōzies and the Twenty-Os, from the practice of calling the number zero "O"
zeroes, double zeroes, oh-zeroes, ohs, double ohs, oh-ohs, and twenty ohs
