In article , A H
wrote:
All day long the lazy journalists of the UK media have been giving out the
emergency telephone number for the SE Asia earthquake and subsequent tidal
waves in the format:

'0207 008 0000'

BBC News 24, Sky News, Teletext have been displaying and saying it wrongly
all day
ITN News 24 format it correctly on-screen but the presenters have been
saying "0207 008 000" all day long....

Is Oftel/Ofcom to blame for this mass stupidity/ignorance (because of the
way the renumbering was done a few years back) or are people in this country
in general just thick?

Soon we can expect to see/hear '0203 xxx xxxx'

Is this the only country in the world that can't cope with simple number
changes?

Andy

I think rhythm is important here, many people break phone Nos into triplets,
but it's into duplets on the continent.

Anyway tonight on Radio 4 tonight at 8 00 there is a programme entitled "The
secret life of phone numbers". There MIGHT be some answers.

Michael Bell

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