'O' one or zero one?

[MarillionFan]

Yesterday in pedant mode I corrected Mrs MF when she went to give me a number.

'O' one, two, she started. It threw me for a second.

It's not an 'O' it's a zero I offered up in best CUK pedant mode. You do it then she said.

Rightio.

zero seven nine etc etc I said smugly.

What's your parents number then?

Well that's 'O' one eight....

FFS!!!!

It seems that certain combination of numbers, 07, 01 solicit a different verbal reaction.Is there an etiquette here????

These things keep me up at night.

[TestMangler]

These things keep me up at night.

Well, if it keeps you up and it's cheaper than all that viagra you normally buy, then why worry too much ?

[Bunk]

Annoyingly I've found myself starting phone numbers with O and then switching to "zero" for the rest of the number

[MarillionFan]

Well, if it keeps you up and it's cheaper than all that viagra you normally buy, then why worry too much ?

It stops me from rolling out of bed at night.

[TestMangler]

It stops me from rolling out of bed at night.

Yeah but you have to watch you don't knock the hallway ornaments over when you go for a piss during the night, eh ?

[MarillionFan]

Yeah but you have to watch you don't knock the hallway ornaments over when you go for a piss during the night, eh ?

'I have to be careful I don't know over next doors hallway ornaments when I go for a piss'

- Sasguru - Big Swinger.

[Paddy]

Yesterday in pedant mode I corrected Mrs MF when she went to give me a number.

'O' one, two, she started. It threw me for a second.

It's not an 'O' it's a zero I offered up in best CUK pedant mode. You do it then she said.

Rightio.

zero seven nine etc etc I said smugly.

What's your parents number then?

Well that's 'O' one eight....

FFS!!!!

It seems that certain combination of numbers, 07, 01 solicit a different verbal reaction.Is there an etiquette here????

These things keep me up at night.

Both work the same

[TimberWolf]

To enable much quickness, the numbers 0 to 9 should just have one syllable. That's just 7 to crack once O is allowed.

[TimberWolf]

But on the other hand there are standards to maintain:



I aint saying fow-er, one syllable does me.

[MarillionFan]

To enable much quickness, the numbers 0 to 9 should just have one syllable. That's just 7 to crack once O is allowed.

Interesting. And very correct.

Maybe it's the mentally the brain/linguistically we cannot stand odd sound syllables. Zero seven my example is 4 syllables. The rest 2. Does that expand to the rest of a number. Will humans automatically use a combination of o's and zeros to make an even pattern?