is aughties a real word?

aught X aught = aught

Originally posted by Very Rusty
aught X aught = aught

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
aughties
(noun) : the years 2000 through 2009

Here in the United States, we spent New Year’s weekend bidding good riddance to the awful, awful aughties — a miserable decade of bubbles and busts, rising health care bills and soaring deficits, domestic terror attacks and overseas quagmires. —Ross Douthat, New York Times, 1/4/2010

is tha ...[text shortened]... e decade shall be termed, the aughties, surely not? Grandpa, you are a word smith, help us out.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
aughties
(noun) : the years 2000 through 2009

Here in the United States, we spent New Year’s weekend bidding good riddance to the awful, awful aughties — a miserable decade of bubbles and busts, rising health care bills and soaring deficits, domestic terror attacks and overseas quagmires. —Ross Douthat, New York Times, 1/4/2010

is tha ...[text shortened]... e decade shall be termed, the aughties, surely not? Grandpa, you are a word smith, help us out.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
As bad as they were, the Aughties were better than the Eighties.