On 29 Dec 2008, at 23:27, Neil Jerram wrote: > 2008/12/29 Stroller <[email protected]>: >> >> Note, however, that I would most always use "0207" or "0208 xxx yyy" > > Need one more "y" there:
I thought that might be the case. > "0207" or "0208 xxx yyyy". Nevertheless, I would write or say it this way. >> for London numbers - I personally would not use "020", or group the >> "7" or "8" with the next set of digits. This is probably because I >> remember when they changed London numbers from "01" to "020" and then >> subsequently added the "7" & "8" depending upon whether the >> destination was in inner- or outer-London respectively. > > But technically, I believe that "020" is the area code - in the sense > that when you're using a landline in an 0208 place (i.e. outer > London), you can call "7xxxyyyy" without dialling the area code, and > vice versa. For this reason I personally prefer writing "020 [78]xxx > yyyy". I figured that may be the case. I wonder how many people do write it this way, though? I meant to add in my previous reply, that there are probably no hard & fast rules about how people here in the UK do _actually_ read out numbers. I was on the phone to an Indian call centre a while back and was very frustrated by the way the speaker read my number back to me - "they can't even speak English phone numbers correctly!" I fumed, but on reflection I realised that many native English speakers read their numbers differently to the way I do, too. It can make it quite difficult to recognise the same number, if it is presented differently. Stroller. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
