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Comment by nsavage

2 days ago

This is excellent stuff, I am going to be spending a lot of time on this.

My absolute favourite Canadianism is how, on wikipedia, the 401 (major highway that goes through Toronto) is "colloquially referred to as the four-oh-one" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Highway_401).

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sillywalk  1 day ago

I'm genuinely curious what else it would be called. I live 5Kms away from it, and that's just "what it's called."

Four zero one? Or Four-Hundred and One?

ShroudedNight  2 days ago

I'm surprised "Four Oh [X]" is specifically a Canadianism. I would have expected it to manifest more broadly, given things like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/409_(song)

  • wk_end  2 days ago

    I don't really think it is...in Washington State for instance the highway through the Seattle suburbs is called "the four-oh-five" (there's a Death Cab For Cutie song about this one).

  • madcaptenor  2 days ago

    The Atlanta area code is definitely "four-oh-four" (and also the HTTP error)

    • js2  1 day ago

      I'm confused. How else would you pronounce it? Four hundred and four? Four-zero-four? That's just weird. :-)

      I don't think I don't ever use "oh" for zero. FWIW, I'm from South Florida with New Jersey parents. The area code I grew up with is "three-oh-five".

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