On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:32:51 +0000, Mrs Redboots
wrote:

Michael Bell wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 27 Dec 2004:

I think rhythm is important here, many people break phone Nos into triplets,
but it's into duplets on the continent.

Really, of course, we should quote London numbers in the same way that
we quote every other number (mobiles included) - as a group of 5
followed by a group of 6. But it's horrendously difficult - I can't do
it in my head with my own phone number, never mind anybody else's!

Why a group of 5? The area code is only 3 digits long.

Bonzo wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 27 Dec 2004:

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:32:51 +0000, Mrs Redboots
wrote:

Michael Bell wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 27 Dec 2004:

I think rhythm is important here, many people break phone Nos into triplets,
but it's into duplets on the continent.

Really, of course, we should quote London numbers in the same way that
we quote every other number (mobiles included) - as a group of 5
followed by a group of 6. But it's horrendously difficult - I can't do
it in my head with my own phone number, never mind anybody else's!

Why a group of 5? The area code is only 3 digits long.

Yes, I know that. But many, perhaps a majority, of codes are 5 digits -
like my parents, which is 01903 xxxxxx, or my mobile, which is 07905
xxxxxx and I find most numbers easier to do as 5+6, or perhaps 5+3+3....
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"Mrs Redboots" wrote in message
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Really, of course, we should quote London numbers
in the same way that we quote every other number
(mobiles included) - as a group of 5 followed by a group of 6.

Really, of course, we shouldn't. The first gap should be after the bit that
you don't have to dial if it matches your own phone number, i.e. 020.

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That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
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Really, of course, we shouldn't. The first gap should be after the bit
that you don't have to dial if it matches your own phone number, i.e.
020.
All very interesting, but just goes to show the snobbery of the people
who try to point out their living in the London area, as I've never read
anything authoritative on telephone number groupings.
--
Clive.

Clive Coleman wrote:
In message , John Rowland
writes

Really, of course, we shouldn't. The first gap should be after the
bit that you don't have to dial if it matches your own phone
number, i.e. 020.
All very interesting, but just goes to show the snobbery of the
people who try to point out their [= they're] living in the London
area, as I've never read anything authoritative on telephone number
groupings.

How on earth can you deduce any snobbery from that eminently practical
suggestion? In fact the snobbery lies with people who have to emphasise
that they live in the "0207" part of London.

I'm coming to the conclusion that "just goes to show" often means
"matches my prejudices".

--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

"Clive Coleman" wrote in message

All very interesting, but just goes to show the snobbery of the people
who try to point out their living in the London area, as I've never
read anything authoritative on telephone number groupings.

You mean like
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/licensing_nu...ide?a=87101#1b ?

Regards
Sunil

Mrs Redboots wrote:

as a group of 5
followed by a group of 6

But my Reading number isn't 01189 351xxx, it's 0118 9351xxx, which is
preferably read as 0118 935 1xxx

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"A H" wrote in message
...

All day long the lazy journalists of the UK media have been giving out the
emergency telephone number for the SE Asia earthquake and subsequent tidal
waves in the format:

'0207 008 0000'

1. I don't think it really matters any more. I'm sick of reading out numbers
to people in the correct way - 020 7xxx xxxx - only to have them not
understand, until I repeat it as 0207 xxx xxxx . I've given up - if you
can't beat 'em, join 'em.

2. I think the people, frantic with worry for the safety of their loved
ones, who call the emergency line have a little more to be concerned about
than how the number is formatted!

Ian

"Ian F." wrote in message
...

1. I'm sick of reading out numbers to people in the
correct way - 020 7xxx xxxx - only to have them not
understand, until I repeat it as 0207 xxx xxxx .
I've given up - if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

I have never had a single problem getting anyone to understand the correct
new format, even if they won't use it themselves.

--
John Rowland - Spamtrapped
Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes

John Rowland wrote:
I have never had a single problem getting anyone to understand the correct
new format, even if they won't use it themselves.

Even if you miss out the 020?

I seriously wonder what percentage of London to London calls between
fixed lines - which can be dialled without the 020 - actually are
dialled without the 020.

Colin McKenzie

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it leaves you free to believe the damned lies instead!