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 🙏

I'd say two oh nine for that address but if I'm giving some my mobile number I say zero seven 🤔

Not as weird as my wee old mum who calls it 'nothing", so she'd say two nothing nine!

Two hundred and nine
I live at number 32 and always say thirty two not three two.

It’s always Room 1 oh 1 isn’t it? Not 1 zero 1 or 1 hundred and 1.

So 2 oh 9 for a house number. If I lived at 244 I might say two hundred and forty-four or two four four. But never two hundred and nine.

Two nothing nine is brilliant!

I knew there would be someone out there who had to call it something entirely different 🤣

If I lived here I'd say two hundred and nine.

If it was a phone number i'd say two oh nine.

Just realised I do the same! Oh one …. Three four zero … weird huh?

i would say two oh nine

In the same way I'd say my phone number - oh seven etc etc. No one starts their phone number with zero.

No one starts their phone number with zero.

They do! Oh is not a number. Zero seven whatever.

I always say zero for 0's in telephone numbers. Because they are zeros not the letter "O". Look, let me demonstrate: O 0. They are different. Also, "o" is often misheard over the telephone as eight depending on pronounciation.

Although I also have a way of saying phone numbers and if someone doesn't follow the same pattern, it throws me off and I have to really think about it

Yes for me a phone number has a code of 5 digits and a number of 6 digits (unless you live somewhere like London or Liverpool where it's eg 0203/0151 123 4567)

So for example 07123 123456

but a lot of people split it differently and it confuses me :)

I saw oh not zero. Although if I was leaving the number on an answerphone I'd probably say zero as it's easier to hear.

Is James Bond double o seven or double zero seven?

Double oh, but that has always annoyed me

Two zero nine. But I work with numbers so it's important to differentiate between 0 & O

The habit of say "oh" for "zero" made sense before computers existed, as it made no practical difference which appeared in the output of a typewriter. To a computer, the letter O and the number zero are completely different single characters, and entering the wrong one may have severe consequences.

Having said that, if it's a context where it's clear only numbers are allowed, then saying "oh" is fine. The person on the other end of the phone will know what you mean, and even if they don't, their computer program will almost always not let them enter a non-numeric digit where only a number is valid.

I don't think two-nothing-nine is valid. Nothing is not the same thing as zero, I would interpret "nothing" as meaning null, no value, whereas zero is a valid numeric value. (Though I do know of at least one ancient computer database system that would sometimes treat 0 and null as synonymous, for a numeric value. To the extent that if you built an index on the value, any record for which the value was zero could never by retrieved using the index, it would be treated as if it did not exist.)

I'm just trying to outdo the other pedants with my database technical points. In real life I wouldn't assume someone on the phone was trying to communicate a null value to me as part an address.

2 0 (oh) 9.

I once lived in number 30. The amount of times phone orders were delivered to no. 13 was mad. Worst was a skip that the owners of no. 13 were scratching their heads at, whilst I was sitting by the door waiting for it! I took to saying Thirty, that's 3 oh.......