Re: numeration system

Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:
> In the early day of the telephone, it was found that "nought" and "four"
> were readily confused over bad lines, so people got into the habit of
> saying "oh" for 0 ("zero" is becoming quite often used nowadays also).
That seems weird, as "oh" sounds a lot more like "four" than "nought"
does--"nought" /nAt/ has an entirely different vowel from /for/ and /o/--
I expect this took place in regions without the /O/-/A/ merger...


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