When you give your phone number to someone do you say Oh 4465… or Zero 4465…?
Let’s be honest, only lazy people say, Oh, Zero is the correct pronunciation of Oh.
So please smarten up your language skills and stop shortening your words. 
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Depends if I’m feeling a bit noughty.
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Yup, I really enjoyed that old TV show ……. ……Hawaii-five-zero 
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And that classic Elton John album…Too low for Oh 
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In regard to other applications, such as looking at the balance in my bank account, my common usage is “oh, its zero”.
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Always zero. Oh is not a number!
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I say oh…zero sounds American to me
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I think of zero as an Americanism too and I say “Oh”
But I don’t that’s right really and I don’t think think zero is widely used in America, they use “oh” a lot too
I’m thinking of when they’re naming freeways or all those beginners courses …. “ English 101”
And our emergency police number here is 101, does anyone cal it 1 zero 1?
I think it’s just a language convention, that’s the way it’s done and pronounced, language isn’t always logical and it evolves the way it evolves, so it’s not lazy to be aware of the conventions and follow them really
What about using nought, as in noughts and crosses, or null? They would be just as logical, are people who say zero being lazy by not using them?
But, there was one exception for me. When at work and taking large payments over the phone for legal purposes, I would say the number back to the person paying using zero And do that three times to make absolutely sure. In that situation, I think it’s more precise
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True, but zero zero seven is a bit peed off with you about it……
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My idea of the correct way to enunciate the number 0 depends on the context -
If I’m giving someone my telephone number, I would say, for example,
“Oh one six five seven, two two oh seven six five ….” - telephone numbers do not use letters, so it’s obvious the “oh” is a number.
If I was reciting a reference number with a mix of letters and numbers, I would say “Oh. for the letter O and Zero for the number 0.
Sometimes, for clarity, I may say “letter Oh” when reciting a string of mixed numbers and letters.
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Zero……
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And in tennis love is still being used.
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New Balls?
And they say nil for 0 in football,especially the teams I support.
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Yes, please.
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To me that really makes no sense. Have you any explanation for “Love” in Tennis?
One common explanation is that it was adapted from the French word l’oeuf (pronounced “luff”), which means egg or zero.The Oxford Dictionary also believes that the term “Love” could have been adapted from the phrase “to play for love [of the game]”. Meaning that, if you have no score then you must be playing for the love of the game because you are obviously not very good.
The term could also have been derived from the Dutch word “lof” which refers to “honour” on the tennis court. According to this, although you have lost a point, you kept on playing tennis because it was mainly about honour.
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So, it has nothing to do with “Love Juice” then?
Thank you for the explanation. Never knew that. Well, never even wondered about it. Just thought it was strange.
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Zero every time.
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