Phone code peeve

[yrieithydd]

The telephone code for Cardiff is 029 followed by an 8-digit number beginning 20. 02920 is not the code. This is demonstrated that to dial numbers within Cardiff one needs to use the 8 digit number beginning 20.

Similarly, the code for London is 020, with the old 0171 numbers having an 8-digit number beginning 7 and the old 0181 numbers having an 8-digit number beginning 8.

How complicated can this be?

Comments

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

Heck, my parents' number when they bought the house was three digits long (nnn), and now it's 01462 xxxnnn. It doesn't mean that their phone number is still nnn.

[mair_in_grenderich]

my aunt still answers her phone "Dawes Green 212" :-)

we have the three-digit code thing here in Southampton too. It confused me for a while, especially as 023 80.... invariably refers to Southampton, 023 92... to Portsmouth, etc.

[curig.livejournal.com]

Our phone number was three digits when I was growing up. I miss those days...

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

[grins] I obviously lived in a bigger place the you, as I've never known fewer than 4 and when we moved at 7 the new one was 5. I think the first went to 6 before we did though.

[senji.livejournal.com]

London is slightly complicated by the various kinds of short forms you can use in some parts, which leads to the rather strange:

020 7 111 22 33

form that you see in many places.