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[mame]

I say "oh" and I have thought about it being wrong. I suppose there is always "nought"

 

[imamosher]

I say "oh" and I have thought about it being wrong. I suppose there is always "nought"

Oh god thats another whole argument, I guess "nought" is just a horrible sounding word

 

[Moredhel]

What gets my goat is when people use a totally different number grouping style to me. I'll give them my number grouped like 07525 123 456 (number made up ) and they'll repeat it back to me as 0752 512 3456, which is just plain wrong.

 

[Swordfish]

Always say zero.

Too many time have I had a number read back to me and had the o's replaced with 4's.

What gets my goat is when people use a totally different number grouping style to me. I'll give them my number grouped like 07525 123 456 (number made up ) and they'll repeat it back to me as 0752 512 3456, which is just plain wrong.

This is how I read and say mobile numbers in groups of 4,3,4. I take down a lot of numbers every day and can say that most people will give them to me in that format.

 

[leaskovski]

"oh" my gawd! Its true!

 

[Rainmaker]

In our neck of the woods 'o' doesn't sound all that dissimilar to '4' when you're rattling off a sequence of numbers. Everyone knows phone numbers start with 0, hence 'o1xxx 64(zero)xxx'.

 

[SiriusB]

I use "oh" thoughout any number I read out. My home phone number has a 00 in it, saying "double-oh" rolls off the tongue so much nicer than "double-zero", "oh-oh" or "zero-zero".

I have always considered "oh" in the context of a number to be just a shortened version of "zero". The only time I ever use zero that I can think of is when talking to robots.

 

[Randomface74]

ppl say oh at the start because it's one less syllable and ppl expect there to be a zero at the start of the number.

 

[yhack]

ppl say oh at the start because it's one less syllable and ppl expect there to be a zero at the start of the number.

Do people expect there to be the letter 'o' in a phone number?

 

[qqg3]

James Bond is a 'double-oh' agent...

 

[lbratch]

I'm surprised to see that multiple people use 'oh' for the first 0 and 'zero' for subsequent 0s, that's not something I've come across before. I always just use 'zero'.

Some people even seem to use 'oh' in place of 'zero' in things other than telephone numbers too, to the point where they do it in strings that contain both Os and 0s!

 

[Vix]

I use 'oh' when saying phone numbers, as it's obvious there's not going to be a letter in there, but 'zero' when saying my postcode as it's alphanumeric so can confuse.

 

[Strife212]

Zero sounds so so wrong at the start of a number

 

[Haircut]

'oh' gets used as a replacement for 'zero' all over the place, not just in telephone numbers.

Peugeot has the 2 oh 7, the 3 oh 8 and the 4 oh 7 in it's range.
When you play darts you might start from 5 oh 1
The TV show was called Hawaii 5 - oh
James Bond is double oh 7
etc.

 

[aslco]

i say 'oh' for all the zero's in the number.

 

[Klo]

I say 'oh' for all the 0's in the number.

 

[manoz]

I hate the use of the word 'oh'. I've trained my self to say zero when I recite my phone number and get confused when people say 'oh' when telling me their number

 

[Bumhucker]

What about numbers with consecutive 0s? You could throw people off by saying oh-zero-zero-oh-oh-zero

 

[J1234]

I always say "zero".

 

[robgmun]

Why when people read out a phone number do they always replace the initial number with a letter? ie:

"o"1875 ....... then if there is another "o" in the rest of the number they will then switch back to saying Zero?




It seems strange to me?

Perhaps I have too much free time on my hands

i always say zero, in fact i make a point of it