How do say telephone numbers?

Mobiles: 07777 777 777
Landlines: 01111 111 111
except 020 which is 0202 222 2222
 
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I can actually pick up a number if it is said to me in 1 long stream. I did this when a colleague who didn't really want me to have her number told me it, and I immediately repeated it back to her and her jaw dropped :D

When I give it over the phone, it's always 5 3 3. The logic behind the groups of 3 is because in the area code, the 01 is a given for all numbers (except 02 or 07), so you only have to remember the 3 numbers after 01, so a phone number can be remember easily since it's 3 groups of 3 digits that need remembering.
 
in the manchester area it gets confusing as you have rochdale numbers that have a 5 digit area code (01706) and the rest of manchester that is 0161....for rochdale style numbers it's 01706 123 456, for Manchester numbers it's 0161 123 4567. Mobiles are always 5 3 3 though.
 
I have this with mobile numbers. When I tell people mine I say it in the following format:
0781 000 0000

If somebody repeats a number back to me but in a different order I sometimes get muddled.
 
dmpoole said:
I have a problem picking up phone numbers unless they are said in the CORRECT way which is obviously MY WAY.

6 figure numbers have to be said : 1.2.3...4.5.6 and not 1.2...3.4...5.6

Mobile numbers have to be said : 0.7.8.7.0...1.2.3...4.5.6 and not like my wife said this morning 0.7.8.7...0.1.2...3.4.5.6

So how many of you say it the CORRECT way?

(of course this a debate in the office I have to win)
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Depends entirely on the number. For example, I live in an area where the area code is 0161, but work in one where it is 01204. So my home number I would say as 0161 123 4567, but if I was giving out a number in the area I work, then 01204 123 456. Except for where I work, because after the area code it's a double-number, then two others, then another double. So 01204 11 23 44 (said double-one and double-four respectively). It's all about what sounds easiest, I guess.

Mobiles it would be the same as the 01204 numbers above, unless again it's similar to my work number.
 
Lysander said:
I always say

0207 558 9685

If you're in London there's no point saying "020" then leaving the 7 or 8 till the next block. We know it's going to be one of them.
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Or it could be 3?!

It's incorrect. The area code is 020, not 0207. It's one of the things that really winds me up when people say it wrong or have it on their shop/business card/vans incorrectly.

Should be 020 7558 9685.

Other than that, I say other numbers 'correctly' as in the OP.
 
I say it two numbers at a time :p I just do it without thinking since I am used to saying out Scandinavian numbers on the phone (8 digits)

I know some people find it annoying but habits are hard to break!
 
csmager said:
Or it could be 3?!

It's incorrect. The area code is 020, not 0207. It's one of the things that really winds me up when people say it wrong or have it on their shop/business card/vans incorrectly.

Should be 020 7558 9685.

Other than that, I say other numbers 'correctly' as in the OP.
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No it should be 0207 558 9685. The very fact that they have to state that it is (020) 7 or (020) 8 effectively makes the 7 or 8 part of the code and not the number. You should always separate the code from the body of the number and then where the body of the is 7 digits it should be seperated in 3 / 4 format and 3 / 3 format for 6 digits. Mobiles are just the same; dialing code of 5 digits followed by 3 / 3 format.

As for people reading NI numbers in any other fashion than AA 12 34 56 A is just plain GRRRRRRRRR. :)
 
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No it should be 0207 558 9685. The very fact that they have to state that it is (020) 7 or (020) 8 effectively makes the 7 or 8 part of the code and not the number.
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No, the code is 020. They've started allocating numbers beginning with 3, some numbers used for national use beginning with 0 and 1, and when they run out again they'll start using 4, 5, 6 and so on.

If I was to pick up my phone and dial 7558 9685, it would work. 558 9685 would not, as it's 020 and not 0207 that is my local area code, so writing it as such would be incorrect.
 
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