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
