How do you pronounce House 209?

[LemonSwan]

Calling all mumsnetters who enter addresses, answer phones, have secretarial roles, have lived in such a home with an 0 in the middle or just an excellent grasp of spoken English.

How are we saying this?

Two Oh Nine, Two zero nine or Two Hundred and Nine? Or something else entirely? 🤣

Thankyou speech pedants 🙏

Two hundred and nine because it is a short number. I do use 'oh' in telephone numbers but tend to use zero when I am giving credit card details. No idea why I take a different approach in three different circumstances!

Never lived on a street with that many houses but I'd say two hundred and nine

I’ve realised I would say it as a whole number if the number came first eg “two hundred and nine Oak Road” but would separate out the numbers if the word house came first, such as “house two oh nine”. But I also say the first 0 in a phone number as oh and then revert to zero for the rest, so my mind is obviously scrambled.

Two hundred and nine

I live on one of these roads. I say e.g. seven hundred and eight, because seven 'oh' eight feels like it sounds too close to 78 or 7/8.

Two Zero Nine

There,'s an oh in my address too and I say one oh one

I've just realised I say oh for zero in landlines (oh-two-oh-seven) but say zero for mobiles (zero-seven-seven-eight-six)!

Clearly something has totally misfired in my brain.

Two oh nine

Oh is for orange and not a number!
I'm surprised at so many ohs for zeros 🤯

2 oh nine

This is what I do too. I often have to give phone numbers out and mobile numbers always start with "zero" but landlines with "oh"

I would have said two-oh-nine for the house number too.

Odd.

Two oh nine

I would say two zero nine to make it perfectly clear it's a 3 digit number, no letters. I always use zero rather than oh whenever I'm reciting numbers.

@Butitsnotfunnyisititsserious I do this! It’s always
07xxx xxx xxx

My MIL infuriates me as she does;
07x xx xx xx xx and I can never, ever follow it!

My first home was number 209!

We always said two oh nine.

I would say two zero nine. Oh is a letter, not a number.

this reminds me of a friend who used to use her version of the phonetic alphabet as often as possible but swapped with silent letter words e.g. (she would literally say this)

p as in pneumonia
w as in whore
g as in gnaw
h as in honest
k as in knack

etc. it was pretty funny 😄

I was about to chip in with living at 30a. I used to say thirty ay, that’s three zero a for apple.

Two oh nine. Of course.
Weirdly had this conversation today as I'd used 'nought' when describing a written number with a decimal. I decided it was a British native speaker's perogative to swap and change nought, oh and zero depending on context.

Two oh nine

Same as if it was a bus - “I caught the two oh nine to blah blah town”

*prerogative! Got a Bobby Brown ear worm now...

Two oh nine

Another 2 oh 9, even though I am a computer programmer and know full well that a zero isn't an oh, but it just sounds right for house numbers, or bus routes.

I also start phone numbers with Oh, and then revert to zero after that. Weird.

I answer phones all day and if you said 2 o 9 or 2 zero nine both would be fine
What isn't fine is saying a letter, and me saying "is that s for Sierra or F for foxtrot?" And then replying by shouting the same incomprehensible letter louder (it doesn't make it clearer if you shout it)
You can say S for shit providing I can work out what you're saying