Examples:

  • One oh two Main Street
  • Four oh seven PM
  • Biology one oh one
  • Eight six seven, five three oh nine
  • Four oh four: Not found

Not just a US thing, so I hope this is okay to ask here. I have just never encountered this is any language other than English. Is it simply that O and 0 look similar, and that “oh” has fewer syllables than “zero”? I have not heard a good explanation from coworkers who I’ve asked.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    10 days ago

    And in the trend of languages adapting to usage, saying “www” seems to have dropped off once browsers started automatically inserting it and making it the default prefix if another isn’t used. Not that it isn’t used, just far less.