How do you pronounce 1701?

[Timo]

In Finland it's "yks seittämä nolla yks".

...At least if you're from around Turku or Rauma, which is as good a match as we can get for Scotty's fake Glaswegian Dockyards patois in cultural terms. So yes.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[scotpens]

. . . Brits tend to use zero only in scientific writing, in informal conversations they say nought or oh. Nought is pretty much unheard of in American English.

Americans occasionally use "nought" in the sense of "nothing" or "to no effect" (e.g. "my efforts were all for nought") but we don't generally use it in everyday conversation -- and we almost never use it to mean "zero."

That said, in alphanumeric strings I guess it would be better to say zero to avoid confusion, as in:
1701-C (seventeen zero one dash C) (alpha, beta and delta would work, but the third letter of the greek alphabet is gamma, which would sound funny for a C).

You could always use the NATO Phonetic Alphabet.

 

[Kemaiku]

Brits tend to use zero only in scientific writing, in informal conversations they say nought or oh. Nought is pretty much unheard of in American English.

I'm in my 30's and have *never* heard anyone but certain Scottish dialects use the term "nought" when speaking. It's as rare and out of place here.

 

[MacLeod]

It's also probably a difference between British and American English. In spite of the fact that I write American online, I first learned BE and some things stick. Brits tend to use zero only in scientific writing, in informal conversations they say nought or oh. Nought is pretty much unheard of in American English.

That said, in alphanumeric strings I guess it would be better to say zero to avoid confusion, as in:
1701-C (seventeen zero one dash C) (alpha, beta and delta would work, but the third letter of the greek alphabet is gamma, which would sound funny for a C).

Interesting, that with seventeen it feels natural to say zero, but not with one-seven. Language is weird!

Well in alphanumerical strings zero would be used to avoid confusion, but as

I'm in my 30's and have *never* heard anyone but certain Scottish dialects use the term "nought" when speaking. It's as rare and out of place here.

So much for the noughties then. But the term nought isn't used that often, perhaps it's most common use would be in noughts and crosses.

 

[Kemaiku]

Yeah, but nobody really plays that anymore either.

Or it's "Xsie-Osie's" or TicTacToe.

 

[MacLeod]

Yeah, but nobody really plays that anymore either.

Or it's "Xsie-Osie's" or TicTacToe.

No they much prefer to play a nice game of Global Thermonuclear war.

 

[Kemaiku]

I hear Putin's looking to put a group together to play that one.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Another vote for seventeen-oh-one, because that's what I say when I'm just saying the number part.

When I say the full registry, I alternate between en cee cee seventeen-oh-one and en cee cee one seven oh one, with no real rhyme or reason as to which one I use.

If I was a Starfleet records officer or communications officer, I'd probably say en cee cee one seven zero one. But I'm not, so I don't.

ETA: And interestingly, this was apparently post number thirty-six-oh-one...

 

[CorporalClegg]

I'm pretty inconsistent, I have to say. I guess it probably has something to with something "I heard" at some point that stuck with me.

For example:

I do the "seventeen-oh-one" for he original. But for any of the others I say "One-seven-zero-one-dash-X." (With phonetics) I'm a weirdo.

FWIW I do say "NX-Oh-One"

And "seven-four-six-five-six" but "seventy-four, two-oh five"

And, of course, just "NX/NCC Two-thousand"

 

[Lance]

Seventeen-Oh-One.

 

[SPCTRE]

Seventeen oh one, bitches.

No, seriously. I always include "bitches" at the end. Which gets confusing when it comes to the other Treks, for sure. "Seventeen oh one, bitches, D."

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[Frontier]

One-Seven-Oh-One. I never thought/heard anyone did differently until this post!

 

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[cultcross]

One-Seven-Oh-One. I never thought/heard anyone did differently until this post!

Same. This is how I remember it being pronounced in the show and I've never considered saying anything else!
While I'm no stranger to pedantry and I do agree that 'oh' is a letter not a number, I happily say 'oh' at the beginning of phone numbers so it just seems natural to use it.

 

[Paul Weaver]

17 and one hunderdth milli lakhs

 

[FreddyE]

Well...for me its always been "Eins Sieben Null Eins"...I just tend to think and pronounce longer numbers in German.

 

[Sans]

Interesting question, I've never thought about how I say it. I suppose if I'm just saying "1701" by itself I say "Seventeen-OH-One." However if I add the NCC first I'll say it as "One-Seven-Zero-One." Seems more formal that way.

This. It's all about context.

One-Seven-Oh-One.
And yet Yamato is Thirteen-Oh-Five-E and Excelsior is Two Thousand.

No twenty-double-oh? two-triple-Oh? Two-Kay? Two-Gees?

 

[Enterprise1701]

"Anti" gets used a lot more in the shows, sounds more technobabbly for a start.

Wow, it sure has been a while since I heard the word "anticlockwise".

 

[dahj]

Personally, I pronounce it:
"Oh One One Eight Nine Nine Nine Eight Eight One Nine Nine Nine One One Nine Seven Two Five ... Three"

 

[MacLeod]

Wow, it sure has been a while since I heard the word "anticlockwise".

Fairly common word after all if you clock is running backwards it's running anti-clockwise. Same if you want to turn a nut to the left you turn it anti-clockwise. Of course this is another of those UK vs US English things