I was just on the phone to my online banking team on the sub-continent and while saying my account number, sort code and mobile number (four zeros in total), I managed to say “zero” twice and “oh” twice. Fair dues to them, they must be trained to recognise that when talking to native english speakers, that they’ll throw in zeros and ohs willy-nilly. e.g. I’m fairly sure that nearly everyone starts his or her telephone number with “oh”. All I needed to do was say “nought” in there somewhere as well. 😀

Weird old language we speak.

Nah can’t say I have tbh, I work in Finance/IT and have always distinguished a Zero 0 and an O. They are afterall distinct.

Zero for general numbers, and Oh for Phone numbers.

yes I do. All the time.

Zero for general numbers, and Oh for Phone numbers.

Ah, that’s where I fell down. Must have been having to say a telephone number and an account number in the same sentence. Silly me.

Sheesh, this is a really riveting thread.

zero Oh no it isn’t

I was just on the phone to my online banking team on the sub-continent and while saying my account number, sort code and mobile number (four zeros in total), I managed to say “zero” twice and “oh” twice. Fair dues to them, they must be trained to recognise that when talking to native english speakers, that they’ll throw in zeros and ohs willy-nilly. e.g. I’m fairly sure that nearly everyone starts his or her telephone number with “oh”. All I needed to do was say “nought” in there somewhere as well.

Cool story, bro 🙂

I do the same though. The thought of saying the Glasgow dialling code with zero is just bizarre, yet I use zero for the rest of the number.

Cool story, bro

Ain’t it just! 😛 Apologies, slow Saturday. But, yeah, I deserved that.

As some comedian who I can’t remember suggested, I like to say my phone number as one number 🙂
But I do say zero rather than “oh”

Zero, seven thousand nine hundred seventy six million, six hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and eighty five.

neal, dunno if you saw, but I asked on that house swap thread if you had a link for that place in meribel you rented?

(Continuing the sheer edge-of-your-seat-ness of this thread.)

I do all the time and I work in commercial banking.

This isn’t a new problem, it’s been around since the telephone was invented in nineteen zero one.

I wonder what James Bond says ?

neal, dunno if you saw, but I asked on that house swap thread if you had a link for that place in meribel you rented?
(Continuing the sheer edge-of-your-seat-ness of this thread.)

Sorry I missed it.

Have a lookie here. ….

http://www.skimottaret.com/

Nought me

Cheers neal.

0 for 0 always but I did work as a radio operator. Shame my spelling is not as concise.