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rahrahrah Wrote:

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> Nope. You have to include the area code when

> dialing from your mobile. But the area code is

> 020. And if I where to quote a number to you, I

> would give it as 020 (pause) 8910 (pause) 1234 and

> get extremely upset if (as often happens) you made

> me repeat it by saying

> "sorry, 0208, then what?"

> I can't understand why after 14 years, so many

> people still cannot process a London phone number

> unless it is expressed in (the entirely erroneous)

> terms of the area code, plus the first digit of

> the number.

>


^^


this times a million

I am going to have to retire from this discussion. It is turning my hair grey.


Dopamine1979 Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > For me it just flows better doing it as

> > 0208,xxx,xxxx. Like a mobile number should be

> > 07xxx,xxx,xxx. It throes me off when people do

> it

> > differently.

>

> This.

Dopamine1979 Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > For me it just flows better doing it as

> > 0208,xxx,xxxx. Like a mobile number should be

> > 07xxx,xxx,xxx. It throes me off when people do

> it

> > differently.

>

> This.


Defo this. It's all about the flow. 020 pause? Get out of here and take your strange ways with you...


rahrahrah, Quids recommends Just For Men, they'll never notice...

El Pibe Wrote:

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> I'm obviosuly evil as i do mobiles 07xxx xx xx xx



Actually, so do I with my own number. Doh!


The main thing is that the fist 5 digits are together. I can accept xx,xx,xx or xxx,xxx.

Back when it was still '01' the rest of the number was a group of three then a group of four stretching back to when the group of three numbers in the middle referred to a local exchange (like Mayfair 3232) so the habit of quoting a group of three then four numbers persists leaving whatever comes before it - whether 01. 0171, 0207 etc. - as another group, something we have also adopted with mobile numbers. It's a habit borne out of historical usage rather than hysterical abusage.

I'm deffo one of those who annoys the hell out of most of you - I can assure you it's done mostly out of habit especially when dealing with callers from all over the world using various devices AND one shouldn't assume just because you're sitting in a particular area that the person you're giving a number to knows where you are or where they are!


Cant's really understand the frustration here...


More annoying are those amongst the human race who insist on pronouncing the zero part of a postcode as an o and try to correct you when you repeat it back with a zero!

eg. SE22 ZEROer V SE22 oer

Yes. We all wait until we know you're off work, then start.


KalamityKel Wrote:

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> Every time I'm off work there's bloomin' builders

> chopping, drilling, sawing, hammer banging in the

> surrounding areas... is this deliberate? ;-)

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