Do you say zero or oh

[catmandu57]

I'm a little anal here I always say zero, our address is eight zero five, my wife says eight oh five. I just like to keep my numbers and letters seperate.

[LisaM]

1. Usually zero - in interest of making sure people understand -

but occasionally I'll abbreviate a four digit numbers into its two halves - like "twenty ten" for instance, if it's 2010. Usually that's for phone numbers.

[On the Road]

11. If You're Being Anal, You've Got to Watch Out for Those Phone Numbers

In a conversation with a telephone company engineer, I made the mistake of referring to the emergency number as nine eleven. He corrected me: "It's NOT nine eleven. It's nine. one. one."

[Shell Beau]

2. I usually say oh I suppose.

[unpossibles]

3. I say zero except when I am spelling things or saying the alphabet

then it's "o"

[AlCzervik]

4. zero. O is a letter.

[SteppingRazor]

5. Depends.

In a long string of numbers, I say "zero." for example 436235606456 would get a zero.
Also, several zeros in a row get a "zero" — as in 0076, for example.
But in a short string of numbers, I say "oh" — 805 would get an "oh," not a "zero."

Kinda weird, I guess.

[eyepaddle]

6. Y'know, I hadn't thought about it in detail, but

that is pretty much the same pattern I adhere to.

[SteppingRazor]

9. It took me a sec to realize my pattern as well.

I hadn't really thought about it until I read this post.

[Deja Q]

7. 'zero'. I also say 'zed' for the letter 'Z'.

[conscious evolution]

17. Zeds dead baby.

[RetroLounge]

8. Zero

or zed, or zilch, or bupkis...

unless I am singing Pennsylvania 65-oh, oh, oh :9

RL

[bigwillq]

10. I say it both ways

depends on my mood or who I am talking to. When I want to sound professional, I usually say zero.

[doc03]

12. Naught as in Jethro's "Double Naught Spy"

[Esra Star]

13. Nought

[doc03]

20. According to my dictionary it can spelled

naught or nought. Who knows how Jethro would spell it he only went to the sixth grade.

[LisaM]

14. Anyone say "ought"?

Like in The Music Man, class of "ought three"?

[trof]

15. Zear-Oh. Not 'zee-roh'.

;-)

[Orsino]

16. Usually oh on Internet business...

...but over a lousy phone connection I'll say zero.

[Critters2]

18. I say "oh". There's an 0 in both my phone number and my house no.

and I say "oh" for both. I know it's not really accurate, but I say "screw convention!"

[SPKrazy]

19. zero is bettah!

o=o
0=0

(o) (o)

or

(0) (0)

0r

(.) (.)


okay sorry got sidetracked, must be the Forbes good dope thread,

okay, yeah, 0=zero

much clearer

:hi:

[NMDemDist2]

21. Zero here too, causes less confusion IME n/t

[WritingIsMyReligion]

22. "Oh," especially in the context of time.

(It is NEVER, for example, "Eight zero five pee-ehm.") In the (very few) occasions that I might be misinterpreted, I do specify "zero."