Every now and then I say Oh, but for the most part, I say zero. Like amdavis, when I was in the military years ago, I had it instilled in me to say zero. I've just been back in civilian life for enough years that it's starting to fade just a little. Oh, I'm North American as well.

I say O its just easier/quicker.

zero, because it simply is not O.

"Oh" if its in a series of numbers. Zero if its at the end of a string of numbers.

eg. nine oh five, eight four two, four five oh five

eg. nine oh five, eight four two, three nine eight zero.



ps. Don't phone those people. I don't know who they are.

The men in suits have me say it as Zero.

I've never had a phone # that had a "0", that I can remember, but I would probably say zero for sake of clarity. My debit card # has a "0" and I recall definitely saying zero when giving it to someone, especially over the phone.

We had a local home improvement company who advertised on local TV here for decades. Their telephone # was TY8-7100. Their advertising jingle sang:
"Call Tyler-eight-seven-one-oh-oh for a home improvement date". It's one of those jingles you could never forget. I'm afraid it's stuck in my head for the rest of the evening now.

Interesting topic here and the responses seem to be split between "Oh" and "Zero". It's something you don't think about every day.

When I was little my Mom told me 'never to say 'oh' in phone numbers, because 'oh' isn't a number.' Ever since then I've said zero. But the last four digits of my phone number are "Twenty Thirty".

Depends on place value and length of numeric strand. I will say thousand, or hundred.
Zero otherwise, including area code, so as distinguish the number Zero from the letter "0".

Now you've got me wondering if Canadians and others outside the US always call a "z" a "zed" or a "zee"? I've been under the impression that Canadians always said "zed".
We say "zee" you see.

I usually say zero. Just a habit I have always done.

Nul.

I say Oh when i'm talking about phone numbers. I'm too good to use 2 syllables on 0.

What do you people say for decimals, eg "0.5"?

When I give my phone number I always say letter "O" (and there are two in my number). Zero sounds a little stilted when using it in a phone number. If someone has a problem with it they're a little too easily bothered IMO.

LMFAO :rofl: maybe that is where we get it from. :rofl:

After reading this thread I can only think of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfWO5Kkzv74.

Point five.

When I want to be a math [censored], I call it the limit of 1/x as x goes to infinity.

Or I yell "ZORROOOO!" and hope they take my meaning.

I say "O"

Leading "0" is an Oh.

Following "0"s are zeroes.

Since I've done a aeronautical radio course, I have a tendancy to say "fife" instead of "Five" and "niner" instead of "nine" in normal conversation, yet I wont use "Tree" for "Three" (and have a hard time remembering that one on the radio).

Well in that video, the version number is 1 point Oh. :wink_smile:

Depends on whom I am talking to, and the context of what we are discussing. For example , to a student, a measurement of 607.52 would be enunciated as six hundred and seven point five two. If it regards money, it would be six hundred and seven dollars, fifty two cents. Sometimes it is difficult for people to distinguish between a spoken "hundreth" and "hundred" .

It depends. For my cell, the second set of numbers begins in 0 and I say oh, but the home phone number we've had ever since I was a kid has a zero at the end and it flows better to say zero.

Ah, see I'd say "nought-point-five" or "six-oh-seven-point-five-two".

Saying "o" or "oh" instead of "zero" is just bad practice and makes as much sense as saying "i" for "one" and "s" for "5", that they are similar in look does not make them the same thing, so you should not call a number something it is not, such as a letter.

While we are on the case, let′s abolish AM and PM too, really it may make a person feel fancy to have Latin words in his or her vocabulary but you don′t see it with any other languages, you don′t take Danish and mix it with English saying perhaps "Jeg am going to buy slik og soda" or Icelandic and say "Bíllinn broke down, svo ae I tarf to repair it" or heck let′s pick another language on google translate... Chinese! "我 hate going to 睡眠"

So why do we need to go all "Yeah the clock is five post meridiem" or "oh it′s already past midnight, in fact it′s two ante meridiem" =.= I say it′s just seventeen and then I say it′s two.

In fact let′s scrap the "o" thing, it′s far less annoying than PM and AM. But yes, zero = proper.