What will they call this generation?

Aughts, I believe, is what they called the 1900-1909 decade.

So maybe they will call us, Aughts again.

Or they could call this decade just "the first decade of the 21st century."

"In contrast to the decades from 1920 to 1999, which are called "the Twenties", "the Sixties", and the like, the decade beginning in 2000 has no universally accepted name.

Some refer to the decade as the "twenty hundreds" while others may refer to it as the "two thousands". In written form, this could appear as "the '00s" or "the 2000s". But writing "the 2000s" or simply saying "the two-thousands" can cause confusion, since this could refer to the entire 21st century or even the entire millennium.

Determining a name for the decade has been problematic, especially in the United States. In 1999, anticipating the upcoming awkwardness, a U.S. group calling itself "Project Naughtie" ran a viral campaign in an attempt to popularize "the Naughties" as the decade's name.

The term is a portmanteau of naught, meaning "nothing" or "zero", and the names of other decades such as the eighties and nineties, with the intentional implication of naughty as being uninhibited. A limited number of the media have made some use of the term as well, including the BBC (using the common British spelling, nought).

Both spellings have gained some currency among the legitimate press in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia, but there still remains no consensus on what term to use.

Other proposed names include:

* aughts, aughties, and double-aughts, from aught, which, like naught, means "zero" (aughts was one of the more popular terms in the early 20th century)

* nils and nillies, from nil, meaning "nothing"

* 2Ks, from the Greek term khilioi, meaning "thousand"

* ōzies and the Twenty-Os, ohs, double ohs, oh-ohs, and twenty ohs, from the practice of calling the number zero "O"

* zeroes, double zeroes, oh-zeroes

Epoque Belle

In England, we call it the Noughties (as in nought -- 0).

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"infant eyes"

"Buckshot Babies."