On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 20:31 +0000, Linus Surguy wrote: > > Hmm.. phone bills used to be formatted 0207 or 0208 from BT. > > Many people thought that was proper becuase it appeared on their > > phone bill. That is why there is such a high percentage of people > > that put webpages up with 0207 or 0208 for their phone number > > rather than breaking it after the 20, which is more proper. > > The main reason is because 01 for London turned into 0171 & 0181 and then > people were told that 'numbers starting 0171 are now 020 8', but they > assumed that that meant that the '020 8' bit was still the whole dialling > code. > > Linus
even BT still lists them as 0208 (and most likely 0207). http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=site%3Abt.com +0208&btnG=Search According to friends in London (I only lived in Scotland so I didnt see a london bill) listed the number on the bill as 0208 or 0207 instead of 020 8/020 7 until recently. So many people just copied BT rather than trying to do something different, even if symantically more correct. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 http://www.sacaug.org/ Sacramento Asterisk Users Group
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