People who say VW...
When it's more syllables than just saying Volkswagen. It's like they're unknowingly failing to be lazy.

It's annoying when a written abbreviation can take longer to say than the actual word. Although most of the time this is when there are w's.

I hate saying "www." but I doubt if anyone says "World Wide Web".

I always say "zero" instead of "o" if it's a number. But if you press 1471 they'll "o" so I guess it's acceptable??
( awayfromthenumbers, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 13:57, 9 replies)

"Zero" or "oh" depends on context, for me.
If I'm reciting a telephone number, I'll usually say "oh". If I'm dictating computer-related information to colleagues, I'll say "zero" to reduce the risk of letter/number confusion.
( flake has nothing against your right leg, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 13:59, closed)

I mix and match
it becomes an 'o' in the middle of a sequence or at the beginning of the dialling code.

'o'1482 7 'o'469'zero'
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 15:41, closed)

I've started doing 'zero'
But I've recently had to re-learn my NATO alphabet so I blame that.
( Cadmus has teh uplikn coeds at, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 16:58, closed)

I quite like "dub-dub-dub"
Because it is somewhat reminscent of a nursey rhyme
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:04, closed)

I don't know why but that term, really, REALLY, winds me up.

It just sets me teeth on edge..
(wuckfit Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori., Tue 13 Apr 2010, 22:39, closed)

Thank god "information superhighway" is no longer used! I hated that term at the time and still hate it.

And to use your example of the phone number, I hate it when people say fourteen seventy-one." If I'm writing it down, I try to write "4-10-71"
( setimret likes his metaphors mixed, not stirred, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:16, closed)

Phone numbers
For no apparent reason I appear to use 'zero' for mobile numbers and 'o' when it's a landline as in zero-seven-seven-nine or oh-one-three-one.
(Skawt, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 14:35, closed)

Stephen fry pointed out
that WWW "double U, double U, double U"

is more sylables than "world wide web" making it pointless

he says wuh, wuh, wuh
(sittingduck Attention seeking, bullshitting fuck-knuckle, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 16:04, closed)

I say...
"Three double-yous dot". Less of a mouth-full and if you say Worldwide Web then some people (my father for example) will try to type the whole thing.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 18:23, closed)