Hell wrote:

>Australians always think it's funny to make NZers say the
>number 6, because we sound like we're saying "sux".  But they sound like
>they're talking about carnal knowledge, so the joke is on them.

For a while the writer Harlan Ellison had an Australian secretary. One of 
her duties was to call some agency and give an account number to a 
computer. The poor machine couldn't understand a word she said, so we had 
to teach her to count from 0 to 9 in American:

Wun : Wun
Toe : Too
Thray : Thuree
Faw : Fower
Fighv : Fiyiv
Sex : Six
Sayven : Seven
Ight : Eight
Nun : Niyin
Zero : Zero

Gil

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