020

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Is the dialing code for London. Not 0207 or 0208. Jesus Christ! You LIVE there! You can't dial someone else in London using just seven digits. You HAVE to use eight. Therefore the dialing code is 020.

AAAARRFRGGGGHHH!

And breathe....

what is a nancing london type?

Clearly, a London resident who gives their dialing code as 0207 or 0208.

I would have thought this was self evident.

by that defination BZ i am one

i thought bt were in cohoots with stationary printers and sign writers et al
they changed our numbers too much
01
071
0171
0207

they chnaged the code to 4 numbers i aint changing back now

french eight numbers yes, then you know you are abroad if the funny tones dont tell you..

mobiles work of the devil use very sparingly..

pip pip
hth

but they never changed it to "0207", Dee...

Oh Dee, Dee, Dee. You didn't really think you could get away with "stationary printers" on Pedants' Corner, did you?

habbibu..well you know, not a mobile printer!!

gawd, you lot get easily wound up!

the 0207/8 came after the 0171 so surely replaced 4 digit code??

i think the reason it works 4 Code, 3 numbers 4 numbers, its is a bite sized chunk to say, repeat, retain, write etc..

its too imbalanced the other way..out of kilter imhe

i once heard on radio 4 them banging on about saying 'O' or 'zero' .. in phone numbers i tend to say zero as it is clearer to say, which they said was all kwrong..

so at least i am consistently kwrong telephone wise..

Zero is the nummber, O the letter - surely zero is correct?

erk - number. typing left handed - ill dd asleep on right arm.

This one is like pedantry viagra. Those that get wound up by it, get really wound up by it.

Meanwhile the well-adjusted and everyone outside London shrug their shoulders.

But BCZ is outside London - by quite a long way

ah. um. I meant this.

I am in the 020 xxxx xxxx brigade, but I think this is largely a function of the fact that Melbourne telephone numbers have eight digits.

Perhaps you can answer another telephone number convention question that has been nagging at me for the last eight years - where should the spaces be placed in British mobile telephone numbers? There seems to be quite a lot of variation in practice and I need to know I'm doing it right.....

I get annoyed when I call somewhere locally in London, give my address and when asked for my number I say, it's 8xxx xxxx and they say something stupid like, "Is that a mobile?" No, you numpty. It's a number very similar to the one I just called you on. I just assumed you wouldn't need me to point out that a house in the same postcode as yours will have the same dialling code.

Also, how come mobile numbers are reeled off as 07xxx xxx xxx and not 078 xxxx xxxx? I had to change the way I said mine to the former, as I seemed to confuse people with the former. (In Ireland we used the latter.)

there's the thing twelveyeargap - I also had to change the way I pronounced mobile numbers.

BUT

I've just checked the Oftel archive (former life as a telco regulation geek) and at the time they were suggesting

07x xxxx xxxx

see?

AND

Oftel said it should be 084 5xxx xxxx, not 0845 xxx xxxx.

Obviously no-one listened.

I get particularly annoyed, when websites like the O2 site, ask you for your mobile number and it FORCES you to put it in as 07xxx xxxxxxx.

I had no idea this was such a hot topic. Weird. I remember 01 for London too. And whole phone numbers that were only FOUR digits. Without the dialling code, obv.

Bring back ACOrn for Acton I say!

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