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daveloyall on Nov 14, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Compromising a Linux desktop using 6502 opcodes on...

This!

TIL some people pronounce 0 as "oh" and some people pronounce it as "zero".

Take this fact with you as you read all the other comments about pronunciation on this page. ...See? :)

qbrass on Nov 14, 2016 | [–]

You should listen to people read phone numbers.

"One oh four, zero one eighty"

daveloyall on Nov 14, 2016 | [–]

or "ought", maybe?

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