The local time is: five past eight.
Jul 26, 2019, 5:45 am
#48
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I certainly wouldn’t call the cabin crew daft.
Last edited by paul78; Jul 26, 2019 at 4:30 pm
Jul 26, 2019, 6:11 am
#49
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Probably pedantic, but having served in the military I do get sometimes annoyed when people use the phonetic 'oh' when they mean 'Zero'.
What time is it? - 'Oh nine forty five'.
It is 'Zero nine forty five'.
The letter 'O' isn't a number.
The same with telephone numbers:
00121 204 4002
is Zero Zero One Two One Two Zero Four Four Zero Zero Two.
not
O O One Two etc etc
BM
What time is it? - 'Oh nine forty five'.
It is 'Zero nine forty five'.
The letter 'O' isn't a number.
The same with telephone numbers:
00121 204 4002
is Zero Zero One Two One Two Zero Four Four Zero Zero Two.
not
O O One Two etc etc
BM
Since phone numbers began, the convention has been to use Oh for 0. It is only recently that zero’s use has increased.
So London was Oh-one before, and now oh-one-seven-one. I find that many zero-users say oh at the start of the area code and the switch to zero later on. Madness!
I have three 0’s in my phone number. The amount of time people convert it to zero when repeating it.
Keeping this BA, I had to ring OnBusiness a while back. I remember three membership numbers for them (not sure which one I can lose to make the correct two), and I had my credit card number to give too. The agent insisted on ‘converting’ my ohs to zeros. I think she was trying to make me forget all my numbers.
Jul 26, 2019, 6:22 am
#51
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Jul 26, 2019, 6:51 am
#54
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The OP must be driven to distraction by the everyday use, misuse and mangling of the English language. The time is truly the tip of the iceberg and rather benign as these things go.
You're/Your
There/They're
Ask/Axe (There are a lot of people in London getting Axed questions)
Specific/Pacific (this one drives me particularly insane and it's native English speakers who are the usual culprits)
Jul 26, 2019, 7:05 am
#55
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As this is the thread inspired by being pedantic "most of you switched on before you're allowed to do so"
The OP must be driven to distraction by the everyday use, misuse and mangling of the English language. The time is truly the tip of the iceberg and rather benign as these things go.
You're/Your
There/They're
Ask/Axe (There are a lot of people in London getting Axed questions)
Specific/Pacific (this one drives me particularly insane and it's native English speakers who are the usual culprits)
The OP must be driven to distraction by the everyday use, misuse and mangling of the English language. The time is truly the tip of the iceberg and rather benign as these things go.
You're/Your
There/They're
Ask/Axe (There are a lot of people in London getting Axed questions)
Specific/Pacific (this one drives me particularly insane and it's native English speakers who are the usual culprits)
What I’m bothered the most by at the moment is the mixing up of past tenses and past participles.
I seen the A350 in Toulouse yesterday. I’ve went there before several times.
Jul 26, 2019, 8:59 am
#56
Join Date: Jul 2006
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Grief, how ridiculous. Who on earth speaks in 24 hours clock time? If you’re too daft to understand 2.15 is 2.15 the afternoon if it is the afternoon and not 2.15 in the morning, then should you be out travelling without a chaperone? I use the 24 hour clock in the car and the house, but until the BBC start calling it the 18 hundred hours news, then so shall I and not before.
In the U.S., they usually associate holiday with the federally recognized holidays (Christmas, New Years, etc...)
Jul 26, 2019, 9:01 am
#57
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Jul 26, 2019, 10:12 am
#60
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if BA made such announcements using the 24-hour clock, they would confuse all their US clientele.