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Barry
People in America call 911 to report to the police. But people in Taiwan call 110. My question is, how do you pronounce "110"? Is it one one zero, or one one o? Which one is more natural and common for an English native to say?
2024년 5월 5일 오전 7:01
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When speaking to other British people, I would always naturally pronounce 0 as 'oh'.
In a more mixed environment (foreign speakers, speakers of other dialects of English), I would say zero because it is easier to understand and more widely understood. Oh can be misheard but zero cannot. Some speakers of English only recognise 'oh' as a letter.
As this is the emergency number of a country where English is not a native language, I'd say one one zero.
2024년 5월 5일
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more native is to yell "call the police!" or "call the doctor!" instead of playing with numbers
2024년 5월 5일
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There are several ways people might say this. Even in the US some people say 'nine one one' while others say ' nine eleven.'
Possiblities for 110 are:
One ten
one one oh
one one zero
eleven zero
eleven oh.
I'd say the most likely to be used (and least likely to cause confusion) are:
one one zero or
one one oh
2024년 5월 6일
초대받은 사람
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I would say it's pretty interchangeable , but I would personally use 'one one zero' to be clear.
2024년 5월 5일
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I don’t think it’s standardized. Americans originally said ‘911’ as ‘nine eleven’ so a third option is to say ‘110’ as ‘one ten’. (Now I think ‘nine one one’ is more common. ) By the way, here you use it for any kind of emergency, not simply to access the police.
Similarly the spoken version isn’t standardized in other countries and languages. E.g. ‘Un-un-deux’ or ‘cent douze’.
Personally I think the best would be to directly anglicize what is said in Chinese but I don’t know what native English speakers living in Taiwan actually do say.
2024년 5월 5일
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