Meteorologist Dan Satterfield

I've decided to start contacting meteorologists in an effort to start a grassroots campaign. Heck, I've been at this for ten years, let's see what we can do in a year and a half left.

So I did a quick search for meteorologist's blogs and fell upon Dan Satterfield with wildwildweather.com. I went ahead and wrote an email summarizing my word for this decade and the next. Also, I've illustrated how this new word could work in the nightly weather report. As long as the city was cold. Here is what I wrote:

Dan,

I have been trying to gain support for a word that names this current decade, 2000-2009. Plus, the decade between 2010-2019 is not named as well.

The problem comes from a missing word that groups the numbers between 0 & 9 and 10 & 19. If there was a current word, meteorologists would use it during their nightly weather reports in cold cities.

At this current time, meteorologists refer to 0 through 9 as single digits. I propose a word that is derived from Latin and is called the unies. The Latin word is a numerical prefix.

The numbers between 10 & 19 can be referred to as the decies. By the way, deci means ten.

Check out my blog about the naming the decade at www.theunies.com/blog/

The reason I’m writing you is to gain support with professional individuals that can benefit from this new word.

Please tell me what you think.

Sincerely,
Ryan

I vote for the "oughts" Ryan.
Interesting!

Dan