It's been 10 years and still nobody can figure out what to call the past decade. At the beginning of the 2000s, columns like this were full of ideas for what to call the first 10th of the 21st century. None of them stuck. The only one that fits is the Aughts — a shortened version of “naught” used by Shakespeare and Milton when they wanted their words to really sing. And naught means nothing, so we really just lived through a decade of nothing. Like I said, it does kind of fit. Maybe there’s another alliteration to consider — the Oughts, as in the decade in which we “ought to” have done something but, instead, did aught, or naught/Ted S. McGregor, Inlander. More here.

Question: Should the first decade of the 21st Century be called the "Aughts," as Ted McGregor suggests?