Zero, Oh?
Honestly, I have no idea if this question can even be answered as I have no idea how one would figure it out... but I really hope someone has come across some obscure item that can help me out.I was...
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Speaking of the Klondike number, here's an old thread on the topic, with a link to Wikipedia, from which I excerpt:The phone company began encouraging the producers of television shows and movies to...
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Speaking of wrong numbers....Aldi, your "old thread" link takes me to a posting on the Straight Dope Message Board from an argument about treating infertility.
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Sorry, doc. That's what comes of browsing several forums at once on different tabs. I copied the wrong link. :)Fixed now.
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"I & 1"-why streets, like in Wash DC are called "EYE Street."Yeah, and there's no J Street for a similar reason. straight dope
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That's not a similar reason at all (summary: when Washington was laid out, I and J were still to some extent seen as variants of the same letter).
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Quote:the exchange name was something like "POplar" and she'd dialed 0 (zero) instead of 6 (O) for the second digit, which converted it into my work number. I would guess that sort of thing happened...
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Zero and 1 weren't allowed to be in the 2-digit exchange at all in the US back then, so it shouldn't have been confusing as you would never have dialed a number like that before.Good point.
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seen as variants of the same letterwhatever.I guess that similarity is in the i of the beholder.
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I don't know why the numerical 'oh' (zero digit) is not written/printed/typed as (struck-through O) to avoid confusion in English-speaking countries. I always write checks/cheques this way. Don't...
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At this point I thought it would be worth quoting the Jargon File's entry for numeral zero:0 Numeric zero, as opposed to the letter O (the 15th letter of the English alphabet). In their unmodified...
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On the thread that we were directed to, wordgeek asks, "anyone got any proof they [six digit numbers] existed?"Thought someone might be interested in seeing...
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Further to Dr Techie's reply, the visual confusion between 0 (the numeral) and O (the letter) and 1 (the numeral) and I (the letter) - particularly in a sans-serif typeface - is why the vehicle...
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Time back way back in my computer science lab assistant days input to the mainframe was through TTY-33 teletypes. They sometimes distinguished between O and 0 by slashing the zero and not slashing the...
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Although, even as a novice etymological spelunker, I doubt this was the origin, I do know that, in the military, we used [i]oh[/i] for zero when naming the time of day in 24-hour time. For example,...
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I teach ESL, and imagine my struggle trying to explain why we say nineteen OH three (1903) if it is a year, , but one thousand nine hundred AND three if it is a figure (1,903). But I also hear, "the...
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I also teach ESL, well...EFL. After explaining the "nineteen OH three/one thousand nine hundred and three" difference, you then must add, "But, THIS year is...uh, two thousand (and) six!"
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Here in Anchorage the usual answer for the question " why is there no "J" street?" is that at the time the Anchorage streetplan was laid out the word "jay" meant prostitute. Consider "jay-walking." It...
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"Jay" does not mean prostitute, as far as I can tell. Stupid or contemptible person, yes, prostitute no. Certainly "jaywalk" has nothing at all to do with prostitution.In another missing "J" story, in...
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Another reason given below for the missing J Company, Dave, and probably equally mythical."J Company doesnt exist in the Army. It was stricken from the rosters after a mutiny had occurred in a J...
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