Telephone Numbers.
“O” FOR “NOUGHT.” Telephone users who have asked for a number containing a nought must have observed how the exchange girl has repeated the number, pointedly saying “o” instead of “nought.” There is a reason for this. The change is being tried all over New Zealand with a view to ascertaining whether the “o” is easier to hear over the wires than the “nought.” Subscribers are asked, therefore, when calling such a number as 103, to say: “One o three,” and not “One nought three.” New Zealanders visiting Australia are repeatedly cheeked by the manual • exchange girls there when asking for a number with an “o” in accordance with the Dominion’s custom of saying “nought.”
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Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18972, 1 December 1933, Page 4
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117Telephone Numbers. Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 18972, 1 December 1933, Page 4
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