If you listen to people recite a phone number they will
often repeat it the same way over and over, using "oh"
in some places and "naught" in others. ( I mean zero )

POD  Gus


On 2006-Apr 10, at 11:22 AM, Marcel Birthelmer wrote:

Gus Salavatore Calabrese wrote:
> Perhaps someone on the list can comment about why
> people will choose to say "zero" sometimes and "oh"
> at other times.
>
> For example:  303 1006   might be pronounced
> three oh three one zero zero six
> ( and pronounced that way consistently )
>
> Gus    AGSC

Because "oh" is shorter and more convenient but less distinctive. "oh
oh" could easily be misunderstood to mean "oh", especially on a noisy
phone line or something like that. On the other hand, things like
interstate 101 (which runs from LA or something up into oregon or
something) is always referred to as "the one oh one" or "one oh one".
- Marcel
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