How do you like to read a phone number?

Stroller stroller at stellar.eclipse.co.uk
Tue Dec 30 22:31:53 CET 2008


On 30 Dec 2008, at 12:16, Gothnet wrote:
>> ...
>> Note, however, that I would most always use "0207" or "0208 xxx yyy"
>> for London numbers - I personally would not use "020", or group the
>> "7" or "8" with the next set of digits. This is probably because I
>> remember when they changed London numbers from "01" to "020" and then
>> subsequently added the "7" & "8" depending upon whether the
>> destination was in inner- or outer-London respectively.
>>
>
> I would likewise, but you need your memory checked :)
>
> It went 01, 071/081, 0171/0181 then 0207/0208. BT changed the London  
> codes
> sooooo many times in the 80s and 90s.

Well, one must be OLD to remember any of this. It is not surprising  
that my memory fails me.  ;)

Stroller.






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