Sometimes it is two digits like the country code of New Zealand which is 64. Sometimes it is one digit like the country code of the United States, which is 1, or the code for Russia which is 7. Mobile phone is used in British English (and most of the rest of the world)Īnother way of asking for someone’s number is:Īn international phone number can be divided into different parts: We don’t normally say: What’s your telephone number? (Though it IS still correct) If you want to know someone’s phone number, you can ask: How can you ask for someone’s telephone number? 555-3527 = five, five, five, three five, two seven. This is a fake phone number so people don’t call them. However in many movies or TV series, the phone number that appears starts with 555… and they say these numbers individually as five, five, five… and not triple five. 2149-8 777 = two one four nine, eight triple seven.If a phone number contains three of the same numbers together, we usually say triple (then that number): 5718- 3369 = five seven one eight, double three, six, nine.If a phone number contains two of the same numbers together, we usually say double (then that number): However, you will also hear people say OH instead of Zero in American English. 5059-1023 = five zero five nine, one zero two three.Sometimes in American English, the Zero is pronounced as Zero and not O. 5059-1023 = five oh five nine, one oh two three.The most common way is to pronounce the Zero like the name of the letter O (oh). When there is a 0 (zero) in the telephone number, there are two ways of saying it: 3692-5847 = three six nine two, five eight four seven.In English, we give telephones numbers by saying each individual number in it: In spoken English we normally say phone number instead of telephone number.
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