Why har?

• LinYu

  14 Apr 07, 20:43

  
  Why we say Bus number 9 when it is single digit and bus sixty nine when it's 2 digits and bus 139 when it's 3 digit. why har?
  
• turbo_drift

  14 Apr 07, 20:44

  
• Unidentified

  14 Apr 07, 20:45

  wah so observant
• SBS9806J

  14 Apr 07, 21:28

  Which one sounds better: six nine or sixty-nine?
• omgukilledkenny

  14 Apr 07, 21:30

  
  more convenient
• SBS3688Y

  14 Apr 07, 23:51

  in australia, aussies for eg svc 402; call it "four-hundred and two"
• TWS4793

  14 Apr 07, 23:56

  Originally posted by SBS9806J:

  Which one sounds better: six nine or sixty-nine?

  For single digit, it's simple. '3' is pronounced as 'three'. Common sense right?
  
  For two digit numbers like 69, I would recommend 'sixty-nine'.
  
  But for three digit numbers, I would recommend reading every digit. If it's Service 293, I pronounce it as 'Townlink two nine three'.
• SBS351M

  15 Apr 07, 01:00

  Originally posted by TWS4793:

  For single digit, it's simple. '3' is pronounced as 'three'. Common sense right?
  
  For two digit numbers like 69, I would recommend 'sixty-nine'.
  
  But for three digit numbers, I would recommend reading every digit. If it's Service 293, I pronounce it as 'Townlink two nine three'.

  Ah 69 ah, nice number leh, but kids cannot know what 69 is .
• LinYu

  15 Apr 07, 01:32

  you usually say i take bus NUMBER 3 nbut not bus 3. the point is "NUMBER 3"
  
• SBS9806J

  15 Apr 07, 13:24

  Originally posted by LinYu:

  you usually say i take bus NUMBER 3 nbut not bus 3. the point is "NUMBER 3"
  

  Then what? LETTER 3?