Bletchleyite
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Off topic, but why invent new formats when there is a long-established standard (ITU-T E.123) for phone numbers?
Because normal people don't care about telecommunications industry standards.
Off topic, but why invent new formats when there is a long-established standard (ITU-T E.123) for phone numbers?
Context is everything.Yes, the trouble is, try doing that with airline PNR codes and other situations and it won't work.
Why not just be accurate?
People do know that the number zero exists.
Because normal people don't care about telecommunications industry standards.
Not according to @Bletchleyite , there only 67 people in the UK that say 'zero', and he's never wrong!I'd say you've plucked "99.9999%" out of thin air! It's certainly less common don't get me wrong but I think more than 1 in a million use "zero" on the phone. Call centres tend to use zero I've found.
Bother. I like sitting on my head.On a similar theme though, Greater Anglias BUM!.. seats are for bums message I think is brilliant
I know it shouldn't even need to said, keep feet off seats, it has the hare with a shoe print on its backBother. I like sitting on my head.
Back on topic, I'm fine with the Three S's, as long as they are properly quoted in conjunction with the BTP number. Otherwise, it's useless.
There is a special place in hell for whoever devised this phrase. That place is in an isolated room, hands tied down, and it playing loudly and on repeat for all of eternity.
And that's the problem I have with the Stadler PISes. There's this stream of adverts with the Duracell bunny in Meccano which is all well and good until you want to know when the train is arriving at Colchester!I know it shouldn't even need to said, keep feet off seats, it has the hare with a shoe print on its back
I’m pretty sure it was announcing it on my turbo last night along with the E scooter ban messageAre we finally hearing the last of everyone’s favourite mantra? I’m sure I haven’t heard it for ages (or have I finally managed to blot it from my consciousness?) GWR - if you really have sorted for good - thank you!
To be honest the one time I needed them, they were utterly useless. They couldn't even send an officer!They seem to be clamping down what they want it used for. Over the past few months whenever I've reported beggars they tell me that I should advise station or on-train staff, until I make it clear that I *am* staff. I didn't have this problem a year ago.
I actually like itThere is a special place in hell for whoever devised this phrase. That place is in an isolated room, hands tied down, and it playing loudly and on repeat for all of eternity.
Personally I remember long unbroken numbers better than breaking them up. Each to their own I guess.The final word on mobile number formats? Matching my long familiarity with such as 0161 234 5678, I always quote mobiles as 0772 345 6789, for example (cf area code, exchange, number). A study somewhere claimed that 11 digits are best remembered as 4-3-4, a compromise between length and number of components with the dip in the middle giving a memorable rhythm change.
I thought 61016 was older than 101, but I looked it up and it seems 101 was launched in 2011 (nationwide having been operational in some regions sooner) and 61016 came in 2013.I have never understood why all the announcements say:
"Six-one-oh-one-six"
Where it's clear the intention was:
"Six... one-oh-one... Six"
Because 101 is the police non-emergency number. It's obvious that's why the shortcode was chosen in the first place! So why not say it like that?!
Indeed. If we were adhering strictly to telecommunications industry standards, we would not be including 0 at all, as it's technically the "trunk access prefix" rather than part of the numberBecause normal people don't care about telecommunications industry standards.
To be honest the one time I needed them, they were utterly useless. They couldn't even send an officer!
They are not far wrong at times.It’s the hallmark of governments / civil service who regard the population as mere plebs that need to be talked down to like primary school children.