How do you pronounce 1701?

[BillJ]

Google is wrong!

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[The Wormhole]

Fine, I've edited my post to correct the mistake. And it turns out, Google only backed up my inverted number for the first two results. Next time, I'll check the third.

 

[BK613]

"oh" for "zero" is older than that. a well known example:

eight six seven five three oh nine
867-5309/jenny by Tommy Tutone (1981)

Eight, six, seven, five, three, oh, nine.

Seriously, you have no idea how long I was waiting to work that into this tread.

Beat you to it, Post number 24.

 

[The Wormhole]

But Post 24 wasn't by me, so I don't consider it part of my personal canon.

Yeah, I went there.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Bet you don't know why the band picked that number...

Spoiler: song

When you tap it out on a phone keypad, it forms a diagonal pattern.

 

[JesterFace]

Now I'm curious on how people say their telephone numbers.

"Phone number"

 

[The Old Mixer]

Wilson Pickett wishes he could contribute, but his number doesn't have a "0":

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[The Mighty Monkey of Mim]

"One Seven Oh One" for me as well. Strange that wasn't its own choice in the poll instead of falling under "other."

 

[Mojochi]

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.

Agreed. Informally, seventeen oh one (& any additional letters) which is also the minimal amount of syllables, as well as words. Formally, the entire registry number, digit by digit, fully pronounced, including the dash

However, I'm never really inclined to say it that way. I'm probably more inclined to say seventeen oh one, because of how closely it resembles the way we say years, as in seventeen hundred and one, or more simply, seventeen hundred one

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

We use it as one would use nil, or nothing, most frequently in the phrase "all for naught" (spelled with an a). While zero signifies nil or naught, I'd never think to refer to the digit as such, just as I'd probably never use zero as an adjective, like in the previous example, "our efforts were all for zero"

 

[Elder Knight]

I'd be interested in how some present-day Navy person would pronounce it. Granted, it might change in 300 years, but it's a starting point.

 

[apollo1984]

Other - One Seven Oh One

 

[J.T.B.]

I'd be interested in how some present-day Navy person would pronounce it. Granted, it might change in 300 years, but it's a starting point.

Over communications it would be "one seven zero one." Prefix "november charlie charlie," not "en see see" as in TMP.

Informally, "seventeen oh one" would not be out of the question. A destroyer with a zero would commonly be referred to as, say, "dee dee gee one oh two." Four digit hull numbers are more rare, I think the old Knox class numbers were said as "ten seventy, "ten eighty four" etc.

 

[Elder Knight]

Thanks!