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You know it's not 2 am because it's Daylight outside.
Altho... and especially in the winter months, I have woken up at 6pm and panicked, thinking it was 6am or vice versa.
unless your in alaska.
This is great 🤣😂
on a submarine, you can't see the sun, so a 24 hour clock is very important. 🙂 (I was a submariner, USN 1999 to 2003.)
We had clocks with 24 hours on the face (it takes 24 hours for the hour hand to go all the way around the face of clock and the hour marks go from 00 to 23), 12 hours on the face (numbers greater than 12 on the inside), and most of us used digital watches in 24 hour mode. We had those clocks you see in Hunt for Red October with the red digits, those are real. 🙂 I still keep my digital wristwatch in 24 hour mode. 🙂
Also we have pm or am behind the time, so you know when you look at it. You don't have to rely on whether it is light or dark outside.
That big bright yellow ball in the sky is usually a dead giveaway that its the daytime 4 o'clock and not the night time 4 o'clock. 😊
ERRM ACKCHUALLY ☝️🤓 it would be 4 o'clock in the morning, not night time. (Sorry I had to 😂)
@@AgentTexas_wrong 4 o clock bud
Lots of hospitals in America use military time.
Unless you live in Alaska. The sun is shining at BOTH 4am AND 4pm.
And in the midwest, in winter, 5 o'clock is dark both am and pm...
In both high school and university we use the terms freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior.
One addition would be HS we use grades 9-12 interchangeable with freshman, sophomore, jr, and Sr. While uni only uses FSJSr.
For time, we specify AM or PM - ante meridiem or post meridiem to signify morning or evening. Noon is 12pm and Midnight is 12am. That's how we know which it is.
And some people go that extra step and say things like "1 AM in the morning".
@@rowynnecrowley1689 Those are the people who work in the Dept. of Redundancy at the Redundancy Dept
@@benjaminkeller4314Me unfortunately, I'm told I'm their best employee.
"At morning" and "Past Morning".
@@vladyvhv9579 It's actually "Ante-Meridiem" and "Post-Meridiem," which is Greek for 'before noon' and 'after noon' respectively.
Also, context cues are usually sufficient. If we're meeting someone at 3, we assume PM... cause duh.
A lot of us Americans say "oh" for zero, too.
(407)... = four oh seven
90210 = nine oh two one oh (like you said earlier)
Pitbull = Mr. 305 (three oh five)
Thank you for commenting this ...because I was going to if nobody else did.😊
I don't but then I'm kinda anal. Zero is a number, "oh" is a letter.
Heh... you and I both used Florida area codes. 90210 is another great example.. and like you said, he even said it that way himself. 🤣
3 oh 3 the band too.. 303
Born in America, I still do the “o” thing for zero. I am 57 and still trying to train myself, because it is a number, not part of the alphabet.
The area code stays with the cell phone no matter where you physically reside, my ex wife moved to the otherside of the country 12 years ago and her cell phone number is still exactly the same
It drove me nuts when I moved from Philly to San Francisco cuz my area code was 610 (suburban Philly) and an area code from the Bay Area is 510. People kept changing it, assuming I had just mistyped it on my resume, which is why they say they couldn't call me. 🤦🏼♂️
I also have a Bay Area area code but no longer reside in CA and haven’t for many years. I STILL get political calls/texts.
That’s very true. The only way your number changes is if you change it.
Lewis, the clock or the phone adds AM or PM to the time display. But think about this : Have you ever heard Big Ben strike THIRTEEN ? It's really a matter of common sense. If the clock strikes THREE and it's dark outside, then it must be night time. ;-)
But 5 can be tricky if it's winter!
We say O for zero also in America. How do you think they came up with the title 90210 where both zeros are called O.
When it comes to school years numbering, people think that we only go to school for 12 years, but forget kindergarten is an official year. Today, you might hear the phase "Grades K-…" to include kindergarten.
And some of us, (yes, I am getting old -63) didn’t have to go to kindergarten…so we started 1st grade as our 1st year…
@@StarBitt97I concur. I started in 1st grade as well, no kindergarten. I’m 61.
Kindergarten was not a requirement when I was growing up.
The elementary school that I went to started at 1st grade, kindergarten was not added until my younger brother was in 2nd grade.
@@StarBitt97I'm 69 and had to go to kindergarten but it was only half a day.
You can set your clock on your phone for 24-hour time or for for the 12-hour cycle
I want to address the zip code issue. We do have where we can just write five-digit zip codes. However now, they have route numbers that they extend it with four numbers on it now so that helps the postal employees
Zip+4
But it's not required and I have no clue what my+4 is
In Vermont, the last four numbers based is your PO Box number for example, it starts with a zero, then after the other three numbers are your PO Box number
@@harryballsak1123I didn't know my ±4 until it started coming on my mail.
I love to watch Lewis arguing with himself! 😂❤
Besides our digital clocks & phones telling us AM or PM, we tell by whether it's dark out.
Unless you live in Alaska in winter or summer.
@@JJ-vt7sh Not all clocks or phones have AM/PM.
@@alteredaustin1 I didn’t say they did. You may have answered the wrong comment.
My phone doesn’t show AM/PM. Which is why I woke up once thinking it was 4pm 😂
@@IzzySalami I've never seen one like that! Is it a flip phone?
Lewis you kill me 😆😆😆😆 I'd know it's 4 pm because the sun would be out 😆😆😆😆
Not gonna lie, though… One time I did happen to wake up at 4am and thought I had slept all the way to 4pm, until I looked out the window 😂
It is true - your cell phone number has the area code of where you bought it. When you move, you can just keep the number you always have (I live in Colorado, but have a Washington area code). Or you can request the phone company to change the number with really whatever area code you want. At some point, a generation of people won't know that those first 3 digits meant anything geographic. :) Phone numbers also never start with 0 or 1, because those digits have special meaning to the telephone system.
We also interchangeably use "oh" and "zero" mostly in phone numbers or ZIP codes.
Time is display in 12 hour format almost exclusively. Some clocks have an AM or PM (or both) indicator. Our computers will show AM or PM. My iPhone just shows the time (It's 7:00 PM right now and it just says 7:00). The clock in my car also just shows the time without an AM/PM indication. Computers, phones, cars, etc have options to show the time in 12- or 24-hour format. Appliances (microwaves, or ovens) either have an AM/PM indicator, or only use 12-hour format.
there is nothing confusing about it L3wg! our phones and clocks have the Am or Pm shown on them! lol
There are still exceptions!
Americans say Both the 5th of June and June 5th. You only have to state the date a certain way if a specific way is requested on a written form. It's the same way with time also, we don't have a preference as this fellow suggests.
A great example would be July 4th... aka the Fourth of July. Rarely would we say "4 July" (Four July), unless we were trying to be a little more 'international.'
@@dethangelsshadow1722 a lot of people just say "the 4th" too
We can change our phones to military time Most people just dont know or care to learn it. To me half 9 would make more sense to mean 8:30 because you're half way to 9 if that makes sense 😂🤷🏼♀️✌💜
And generally when using fractions for time Americans specify til or after. Quarter to seven, half past nine etc.
haha so weird how differently we use time
Just no on the rounding up of time idea...😂😂😂 And, no, it doesn't make sense. 😉
In the German language, half seven means 6:30 (30 minutes before 7), so this way of telling time is cultural.
I've seen time references in British tv shows where they say "half nine" but was never sure if that meant half after nine (9:30) of half 'til nine (8:30).
We use AM and PM to tells us morning vs evening, simple as that.
I worked at a company that used military time so I got pretty used to both ways, but now and then I still get confused around the 20:00-23:00 (8:00pm-11:00pm) hours.
Wow! I used to live in Anderson, Indiana as well! I was surprised when he mentioned it!
The US medical system also universally uses military time for documentation. The way a person refers to time, dates, grades, or any number of other phrases really depends on that person's personal experience, education, age, or even how well-read a person is.
@Xanthumb_Gum I said "or".
@Xanthumb_Gum I was born to parents in their forties in the southern US and their education was based on standards from the mid-1900s. Their common way of phrasing things is very different to the parents of my peers who were born in the early 1960s - late 1970s. So, as I said, the way a person phrases things depends on that person's personal experience, education, age, or even how well-read a person is. My parents still mix phrases between the traditional and the modern and they're in their 80s.
Another user-group: amateur radio!
The 7 with a line through it is often called the "bookkeeping 7," and as he said, it's to distinguish from a 1.
1:56 Some houses reach five digits. In the U.S., it's common for addresses to jump by two or four per address on each side of a road (odd numbers face south and east; even numbers face west and north) , and by 100 for each block emanating from that street's defined midpoint.
For example, " 520 East Fifth Street " in my town means the address is on the sixth block (0-99 counts as a block) east of North Main Street, which is the primary east-west divider. It will be on the south side of the street, facing north.
I still write 7's with the additional horizontal stroke. US Military required it (at least used to, I dunno if they still do). I like it, so I've kept it.
17:23 I cross my 7s.
In addition, I cross my Zs. The 7 probably comes from all my travels growing up, but also my training as an engineer. The Z, I am sure came from engineering school. Specifically to differentiate Z from 2.
Math degree here- same. Cross 7s and Zs.
Math degree here- same. Cross 7s and Zs.
Same, but only the lowercase Z. For me, it's a way to differentiate between uppercase and lowercase, especially when writing on unlined paper. I write my 2s with enough loopiness to not have to worry about confusing them with a Z.
My 1s look like ls (the letter), so I don't cross my 7s. Crossed the "zeds" in physics so as not to confuse with 2s. Still do in normal writing.
12:40 We can turn military time off and on but when it's off our phones will say "a.m." or "p.m." after it. Physical analog clocks though just goes on a loop from 1-12 without differentiating between a.m. and p.m.
A "quarter" is 1/4. 25 cents is 1/4 of $1 (100 cents). 15 min is 1/4 of an hour.
People trained in drafting or architecture also use the European seven for scale size and size of plan items. Plus we use a strike through on our zero to make it different from the letter “o”.
I love how L3WG reads the title "10 ways Brits and Americans use numbers very differently" then as soon as he starts the video he's like "wait hold up 10? what! how do we have 10 different ways" lmfao
He must go through the Visine to hide just how much weed he smokes!
Quick clarifications: with 7s, some of us do prefer to put a line through it, usually those of us who spent a decent amount of time with math. (Same with Zs, and for the same reason.) Most of us say O and zero interchangeably; we might say seven oh five, but say zero if we’re telling a number to a stranger on the phone; if we need to be sure we’re being clear, it’ll almost always be zero. Oh, and when it comes to telling time, we just say am or pm. So do our phones.
Yep. I've been crossing my 7s (and my Zs) for nearly 40 years. I cross my zero (diagonally) when I have numbers and letters in the same 'word', like PO-01234, but not otherwise. I also use Oh when speaking numbers sometimes like my zip code 55Oh21.
I've learned to write my dates more like 18Jul2024, since I am a genealogist (but I never use 18/7/2024), and I believe I have all my devices set to military time (I can't be sure because it is currently 1:01 (AM)). Everything is just less ambiguous that way.
@@kisili7319 Family genealogist here, I also cross my &7s and write dates as day/month/year.
@@kisili7319The way people write dates differently was something that tripped me up a couple times when I first began to study my family history!
You *could* set your phone up to use military time!
One thing he didn't mention is that military time does, in the US, get said conversationally. When it does, it's said as "XXXX (hours)", with the "X"s being the digits on the clock. For instance, 7:31 A.M. is said as "Oh/Zero- 7 31 "hours)". When the time lands precisely on an hour (8:00 A.M. or 1:00 P.M., for example), the latter two digits are replaced with "hundred" (Oh/Zero Eight Hundred or Thirteen Hundred, respectively.). Because even our soldiers realize how stupid it would sound, you'll never hear "o'clock" in this system.
As an American, if someone said the time was half 9 I would have no idea what they're talking about 😂
I rarely say zero when saying my number. Only when I’m talking to an automated system do I say the zero. Just daily I’d say “Oh”.
Oh is a letter, zero is a number. One of my pet peeves. 😅
This could be a regional thing in the US as well. I grew up in New England and all of our zip codes start with zero and I have always heard people say their zip code as “oh” and then whatever the rest of the numbers are. Also, area codes are spoken like six oh three, eight oh two, two oh seven, etc.
@@meowski617same here in the southeast. Did we just keep this from our ancestors on the east coast?
@@meowski617 Oklahoma here, so who knows. 😆
Born and raised in Texas and have always said “oh” when saying my phone number out loud
I haven't seen it explained, so here goes. US addresses go [lot#] [street] [optional unit#], [city], [2-letter state abbrv.], [zip code]
The lot number *usually* is a 3-5 digit number where the first 1-3 digits indicate a block number (from an arbitrary start point which is usually street 1 regardless of name) while the last 2 digits indicate the position on that block. So, for example, 10562 W 103 st. would typically indicate that the house is directly off of 103rd street on block number 105 at position 62. Most addresses are smaller, so 111 S. Adams st. would be house 11 on block 1 along Adams (which will have a block number associated with it despite having a name).
The unit number is just for apartment numbers or the like, so an apartment address could read 354 Jefferson Ave. #12, which indicates block 3, building 54 on Jefferson at unit 12.
"May the fourth be with you" 😅😅😅
NERD ALERT!!!!@
As a nerd, there is also Mario day(Mar 10). That one doesn't work in the other format either.
@@davidwelch5021Good one- never heard of that!
12:52 Mark! Hmm. With newer digital chronometers, military time is merely an option if you want to use it! I once had a fancy wristwatch that was a birthday gift from a girlfriend. It had an analog clock face with a digital readout underneath it, too. Plus, it showed military time at the same time! I could also include a new time zone for traveling purposes without changing my home time! A bezel and compus were included and a digital thermometer! 🎉
Up until a year and a half ago my address number was 32041. To be fair, I was living quite a way out in the country.
Freshman, sophomore, junior and senior are used in both high school and college.
10:49 Mark! Aha! He ignored the Spaces! 😮
In reference to the time on your phone in america it says AM or PM after the time
I thought that too until I looked at my phone 🤣🤣
@4:13 - LOL You said OH7
7:58 We have freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior nomenclature in both high school and university.
High school freshman is the same as our 9th grade or your tenth grade. We have kindergarten, then primary school (grades 1 through 6), then junior high school (grades 7 and 8), then high school (grades 9 through 12).
After high school you can go to university. To get an associates degree, it is two years. To get a bachelors degree is 4 years. After you get a bachelors degree, you can go for a masters (typically 2 more years) or a PhD, aka doctorate (typically 4 years).
These are the typical, but it does vary. Some junior high schools are 3 years long (grades 6 through 8). And of course university degrees can take differing amounts of time.
One thing that confuses Brits is that when talking about going to a university, we often say going to college. So when talking about going to school beyond high school we just say college. Someone will understand if you say university, but we typically don't use university in that manner. We also don't say uni.
However, we do use the term college and university when talking about the school itself. The term university is typically used for a larger institution that offers a wide range of courses and is also involved in research. A college is typically smaller, with fewer different majors (course of studies). Colleges often don't do research or offer PhDs. However, to make matters more confusing, a university also has colleges under their umbrella. For example: In Columbus, Ohio you can get an associate or bachelors degree at Otterbein College (2,000 students). Or you could go to the Ohio State University (about 60,000 students, I think). While at OSU, you could study in their College of Engineering or College of Nursing, their College of Veterinary Medicine, or any one of many individual colleges. However you would say you graduated from Ohio State or Otterbein if someone asked "Where did you go to college"
some school districts it is K-5 then 6-8 middle school then high school
@@leemer12My school was Elementary K-6, Junior High 7-8, High School 9-12. I have come to realize that is not super common.
@@marshsundeen a middle school around me has 5-8
We use the term _middle school_ instead of _junior high school_ where I live.
So, in UK time you have to do math after 12:00PM
In the UK they do maths.
To be fair I've always just done it like say the time is16:30 I'd drop 1 from the first digit in 16 making it just 6..
Then I'd minus 2 from the 6 (bc we go to 12) and then it'd be 4:30pm
That's probably confusing lol your basically subtracting 12 hours.. actually that's exactly what I'm doing but I'm also dyslexic😂
Your cell number stays the same unless and until you change it. Long distance calls aren't really a thing anymore (unless you're 80), so it generally doesn't matter what your area code is. It doesn't cost any more to call across the country, than it does to call across the street.
Long distance refers to international calls which most carriers still don't offer unlimited with their main package
Yeah but it used to refer to domestic calls outside your local calling area as well. Now the states have become one big local calling area.
@@SwarmerGamingoh you're so young 😊
@@SuperDrLisa thanks, I tell my grandkids that all the time. Sorry I keep up with the times and that makes you wish to insult me?
Almost every carrier and their subsidiaries have free nationwide, minus maybe pay phones and burners. Long distance is international now and for the most part is either included or you just use wifi for it. It's crazy how times change.
"Long distance calls aren't really a thing anymore": Unless you have a landline! Then you can only call your immediate metropolitan area free; everything beyond it is an exhorbinant price like 50 cents a minute unless you get a long-distance plan or a calling card (which are also high priced). If you're calling a cell phone, the issue is where the cell number originally came from, not where the phone is now.
Our zip code can be up to 9 digits, the 5 for the city and 4 more for exact location. House numbers can be up to 5 digits long.
9:05 Mark! Hmm. "Postal Code" = "PC" but I've never of people or read about people shortening it to that. There are enough "PC" examples as it is! 😮
But anyway, I'm guessing that older people have forgotten and that younger people never learned that over here "ZIP Code" is a trademark of the "USPS" and that "ZIP" is the acronym of "Zone Improvement Plan"! If I recall correctly from my "Data Processing 1" class, it was a way of helping the early computers that weren't human women, sort our mail. 🧐🤔
12:31 Mark! Hmm. Sure, we still have our songs like "Rock Around The Clock" and our military terms such as "12 O'Clock High" that also became a movie title, et cetera, et al. But when digital clocks almost totally replaced analog clocks, people switched to reading the time in the digital fashion and dropped the "O'Clock"! I don't recall my exact age range, but I recall making the switch when I got my first digital alarm clock for college usage.
They have "PM" indicators, but they are only useful if you are aware of that. Otherwise, you could do what I did and use precious minutes trying to determine if you woke up too early or too late! "Did I sleep and miss all of my classes and work study shift?" 😮
We say 4th of July because it’s a holiday. That’s what hes talking about
That's probably the only date in America that is spoken that way.
My phone number tells the time in 12 hours but my microwave clock tells it in military time
Lawrence is wrong. Every address in the US has a NINE digit code it's called ZIP+4 which is actually a registered trademark of the US Postal Service..
SOME places have/use the extra four digits. Each post office may accept adding -0000 if you wish to add the extra four but other than more crowded cities, MOST the country (geographically speaking) still doesn't use them, and I'll bet there are millions of people who don't know the extra 4 even exists. So NO, Lawrence is not wrong any more than you are to believe that EVERYWHERE uses them.
I have never lived in an area where you use the +4 part of the zipcode. The only time I’ve seen it used is online shopping where it’s filled in automatically
All places that I know has zip+4 (home addresses, work place addresses, dorm addresses, etc.), you are just not usually required to write out the +4 at all (I never do remember any of the +4). In other words, +4 exists in practically all places (at least all the states I have been to), but they are usually not required in regards to mailing, whether sending or receiving them.
Incorrect.
"Every address in the US has a NINE digit code"
Instead of saying "Half 9" in America we would say "Half past Nine."
American here to do a point by point B.S. check (but this dude is usually pretty on top of things).
• Big address numbers.
True. the reason varies by location, but generally the numbers are not incremental in newer neighborhoods. They go up in intervals of 5 or 10 in many areas, and alternate odd numbers on one side of the street, even numbers on the other. This is because properties are sometimes subdivided. So if a large house is transformed into 4 apartments instead, you don't need to change any numbers, there are some reserved and 310 main street becomes 310, 312, 314, & 316 (all even because they would obviously be on the same side of the street. In this scenario, the British are more likely to do 310A, 310B etc. That works too. Different ways of addressing the same problems. And many bigger cities use a system more like the British.
• U.S. Post Codes (Zip Codes)
We have 5 digit codes, but often an additional 4-digit sub-code. The subcode is optional, but can expedite mail sorting. Businesses often include them, but it's not mandatory, if the subcode is missing the post office has no problem figuring it out.
• Telephone Area codes.
In the U.S., the landline and mobile infrastructure are entirely privately owned. While they are regulated, it's up to the phone companies to ensure their system is interoperable with all other systems. So if you pay your bill on your land-line, you are communicating over many different networks and everyone wants to get paid, leading to "Long Distance Rates", so calling from NY to LA could have costed you 25¢ a minute on top of your normal bill because you're call is routed across 10 different private networks. This was true when the first cellular phone companies came out too. So you needed an area code because that told the system what network you were starting on and therefore who to collect money from, lol. These days, there really are no long distances rates anymore for most mobile plans. If they charged that, people would set their phone to wifi mode and cancel service, lol. So you do still need to dial the area code, even with mobile, but it doesn't really mean anything to the average customer anymore.
• School Grade Levels
That is correct, the chart there is actually pretty good. I would note that tying grade level to age isn't very accurate. In my state, age 5-6 starts first grade, but in other states, 6-7 is first grade. Location matters. Also many kids are held back for lackluster performance or poor attendance, and many kids are promoted to the next grade (more so in private schools, public schools get paid per annual headcount more than performance, so skipping grades is revenue lost for them, lol). And in High School many schools offer dual credit with colleges, so it's not uncommon for kids to get an associates degree before graduating high school, lol. It's not the norm, but still happens a lot. Also, Grade 6,7 & 8 may be combined into "Middle School" (a separate school entirely, between Elementary School and High School), or they may keep 6th grade as an Elementary level, and 7h and 8th grade are "Junior High". That confuses some people.
• Dates (DD/MM/YY) vs (MM/DD/YY)
Yeah, the rest of the world got this one right, it should be in ascending order from the smallest interval to the largest. We do it ass-backwards, and while there are reasons.. they're not good reasons, lol. That's like a watch that displays minutes, seconds, then hours. It makes no sense.
• SSN
Yeah, this is a basic identifying number used for many things. As far as the law is concerned, this is functionally your name, lol.
• 12h vs 24h clocks
This one is kind of dumb, lol... the reason we never made the switch to 24 hour time in general is because when everyone else was doing so, pocket watches were a fashion trend, lol. That's the reason, everyone was just used to 12 hour analogue clocks which didn't have the sub-printed afternoon hours on them. But we do use the 24 hour clock for anything that happen across time zones, so the military uses it (hence the colloquialism "Military Time"), but also shipping etc. So we actually use both formats. 12h is more common with the general public, but 24h is common in industry.
• Quarter vs "One Fourth"
Yes, they are interchangeable, but I don't think I can remember a single instance of anyone saying "One Fourth". Not saying it doesn't happen, but that's likely one of those regional differences in dialect.
• Zero
Yeah, that's a weird one, humanity developed geometry and the early precursor calculus before inventing the concept of "zero" in a mathematical sense (which developed in China and the Ottoman Empire around the same time). Zero is a digit, but it is not a "number", it is the absence of a number. Zero is not the number of something you have, it is an expression of something you do not have. That notion confounded people centuries longer than it should have, lol. But it makes sense, if you have no cows, you don't need a number to count the cows you don't have. It's an unintuitive and fairly abstract concept that we just take for granted now. And there are many colloquialisms for having Zero of something. We do say "Zero" instead of just "O". But we recognize the British say "O". Like James Bond, "Double-O Seven" is more catchy than "Zero Zero Seven" or "Emoticon Boobies Seven", lol. Of course, couldn't he just be called "Agent Seven"... why to people pronounce the null leading zeroes? I never understood that.
• Seven
Yeah, we don't use a serif on our ones, so we don't need any disambiguation.
• Billion
Yeah, there is some ambiguity to that term. Generally, it is treated as a thousand million. That is almost universal in the U.S., but there are actually many languages that have no word for such a number. Presently, there are defined numbers up to an Octodecillion ( a one, followed by 57 zeroes). There are names for numbers larger than that, but none that are formally defined and recognized. Those higher number's meanings are generally understood, but not "official".
In the big address numbers, the largest digits will indicate a block, with addresses on each block starting with a different one, and rising incrementally. So, you get "the 300 block", "the 400 block", etc.
We do say "oh" instead of "zero" sometimes. Like in "one oh one" for basic college classes.
What do you think qualifies you to do this list? You're not even correct lol
Am late, but in my region of America "Half Past Nine" is also common.
As for the Military Time part, "How do you know it's 2pm then?" Iunno, look out a window? 2am is the middle of the night, 2pm is, well, not.
Also most digital time displays has an am or pm display, as well.
5:12 You can take the phone number with you when you move or change cellular carriers.
In the distant past (before mobile phones), if you moved away to a different central office (the phone company had multiple central offices that provided service), you had to change phone numbers. There were technical reasons behind this. When central office switches were upgraded so they could handle different numbers, a law was passed that allowed you to take your number with you as long as you were in the same area. When mobile phones became popular, tradition was kept, so you received a number with a local area code. This was desireable because land line operators were still charging extra for long distance calls. So you got a phone number that would be local for most of the people who would be calling you from a land line. Of course that is all in the past, but numbers are still assigned based on where you originally bought the phone. However you can take the number with you anywhere in the US.
I wake up thinking it's 8AM (and I'm therefore late for something) when it's 8PM at least once a month. Stupid daytime naps.
Americans do cross their 7s. Not all of us do, but it does happen, and we know what it is.
I never have, but I have crossed my Zs so it doesn't get confused with 2.
I'm some places, if you live on the 10th block, all houses will start with a 10. For example, on my street it might go 509, 511, 601, 603 because there's an intersection between 511 and 602.
Actually, we do often say O ("oh") when we mean 0 (zero). And another word we use is "nothing." Such as, "The final score was 7 nothing." Or "7 to nothing."
Just wanted to clarify may just be a southern thing but we say o insted of zero most of the time.. also the show was pronounced 9ohh21ohh(90210) and the song was 86753ohh9 (8675309) lol
Actually, the U.S. has nine numbers for the zip (postal) code. We don’t always add the last five.
My home has number has 5 digits 😊
Our clocks have PM and AM beside the time. 😂
A lot of people in the US, myself included say "O" rather than zero when saying a phone number. I think it may come from the way old telephones were set up. You had the numbers 1-9, but then you had O which also stood for Operator, not just zero. At least that's the way it was written on the phone because you could just dial the O to get the operator. It may have been the same way in Britain.
Oh, I forgot about that, but so true.
If you dialed "O" by itself and waited a moment or two then it would begin ringing and the operator would answer,, however,, if you dialed any other number before the "O" then it would be treated as any other number in the full phone number
On old fashioned rotary phones, the zero was actually shorthand for ten, as the digits were the number of times the phone would click in a series of rapid on-hook/off-hook signals that those phones used for dialing. It was never written as ten, because then the number of digits wouldn't match the number of dial turns that were needed, so it was mostly written as 0, but some phone company records wrote it as A.
The association of O for operator was a useful mnemonic, though. I'm not surprised if that's the reason it was picked, or at least the reason we so often pronounce it as "oh" rather than "zero".
To answer your question about how us Americans know if it's morning or night when looking at a digital clock: our clocks will usually either say AM (0:00-11:59, your time) or PM (12:00-23:59) after the time, so if it says 7:54 pm, then that means it's almost 8 at night. And if it says 11:30 AM then thats 30 minutes before noon
7:31
"I Thought That Freshman And Sophomore Was At Uni"
Technically, Lewis, it's at both high school and University/College
No, we also refer as you day like the 5th of November. In reference. We say as in the day as Novemeber 5th. But poewms etc is The 5th of...We toss it around intermittently. Either or. A lot of us also use the metric as well as Imperial.
Some may use some metric but metric does sucks; especially in manufacturing. The Maße with tolerance that has to have a special din spec and distance tolerance changing at random intervals is the worst. American imperial is simply a +/- .010 or +/-.005 or something like that. For a system thay prides itself for being simple base 10 its probably the most confusing.
"How do you know it's 2 PM then, and not 2 AM?"
Because the Sun is up
17:35 We often used a leading hook or serif on the front edge of "7" to differentiate it from a "1". Depending on the scenario, Americans will add a base to the 1 to distinguish it from 7.
I've found that a combination of the hook and the cross on a 7 is the most aesthetically pleasing to me. Sometimes I hook my 3s too with a flat top. I do put a base on my 1s as well. I also leave my 4s open top to never be confused with 9s.
@@EF0E I took drafting class and architecture in high school before the era of CAD, and wound up pigeonholed into VERY specific ways of writing numbers because of dimensions on machine parts and wiring diagrams having NO room for ambiguity. A 4 being mistaken for a 9 could be an expensive or even dangerous mistake.
This is a fascinating video 😁. I didn't know some of this,as an American.
The reason our house numbers go so high: The firest two digits tell you how far north/south/east/west a house is. For instance, everything between Maple Street and Eagle Boulevard might be designated the 2300 block, so 41 Oak St. becomes 2341 Oak St.
American high school:
14-15 years: freshman
15 - 16 years old sophomore
16 - 17-year-old junior
17-18-year-old senior
10:24 Mark! No, I don't know your number! 😮 Why should I? 🤔 I have my own numbers to deal with! 😊
😂😅
when you move you keep the same area code you had - unless you want to change it. when working as a receptionist it was always a fun conversation starter to ask where they are from when someone gives you a phone number that isn't in the area.
17:45 Mark! We call it a "French Seven" not a "European Seven"! Wow! I never noticed that about their logo! Our county doesn't have any, so I don't see them every day.
But when I was young and able to drive far, I thought nothing of driving two counties north to take advantage of my video rental membership card at the "7-Eleven" nearest to home! At least I remember to use the Hyphen in lieu of the actual logo. 😊
The digital read out on a clock or cell phone in America will usually have it an “am”, Signifying morning, or an “p.m.” signifying afternoon and evening, along with the one through 12 hour and minutes count.
Cell phones have AM and PM next to the time. LOL!!! 2/4 is 1/2.😂
American zip (postal) codes used to be only 5 numbers and we still use the 5 number code today, but around 2000 the Postal system added 4 digits at the end, but few people use those. The first two numbers will tell you which part of a state the address is in. In Georgia a zip code starting in 30 is north Georgia and starting in 31 is South Georgia. Each 5 digit Zip code corresponds to a mail delivery zone, much like in the UK, but our 5 digit zip codes can be hundreds of square miles in the western rural areas.
You said "May the Fourth be with you"? Obvious Star Wars geek reference.
9:32 Mark! Poetic license? Sometimes, singing it one way is easier than the other way. For example, when C.W. McCall sings, "It was the Sixth of June with a 'Kenworth' hauling logs..." in his hit song "Convoy" versus Johnny Horton singing,"In 1814, we took a little trip..." in which he only sang the year.
Ditto with "Fourth of July"! The holiday is "Independence Day" but the song lyric is, "Born on the Fourth of July" and so many people say that instead. But you never hear them saying, "December 25th" instead of "Christmas"! 🤔
As for the dates, spoken versus written? 🤔
Today is "Thursday, July 19, 2024 AD" is how I've been doing it since I was a teenager, causing girls such as Karla Jean Hendrix to ask me, "Why do you have to write 'AD' like it's a Space movie?" Well, that is what inspired me to do it! Once I started, I didn't stop because of mere peer pressure. There was the time I experimented with writing it out as say, "Th.-07-18-'24" or "Th.-07-18-2024" or by adding Spaces, too. "Th. - 07 - 18 - 2024" or by using Slashes. "Th./07/18/2024" like that.
But I guess because of the "Declaration of Independence" I've been influenced by it. 🤔
You know the difference between 2 am and 2 pm by how bright it is outside. LOL
Hah! Went back to see about the “Oh seven” or “zero seven” situation. And you did say “oh seven” and I thought ‘ehh, well to be fair the other guy started it by saying “oh” first’ so I figured it was just a mirroring situation. But THEN the video guy did say “ZERO seven” so then it’s just a funny like conundrum!
Our phones add the AM or PM to the time. Geez..
When it comes to house/business numbers... Since most of the roads in cities, towns, neighborhoods in America are in a grid pattern each block is usually counted by 100's. If you're traveling 12 blocks, starting in the 100 block, every house/building will be numbered in the 100's, next block the 200's and so on. When you get to your destination you'll be in the 1200 block where all structures will be numbered 1201, 1202, 1203 etc. Depending on the size of the city those numbers can be in the 10's of thousands. My house number is 10767 so, I'm in the 10,000 block. Hopefully that made a little sense.
Right, but to further complicate matters, not all streets start with the 100 block. The street I grew up on only had a 700 block and an 800 block, but they were (I assume) numbered that way to match up with other, parallel streets that were longer.
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I put that dash through the 7 and have done that for about 30 years I'm almost 37 now.
Grades 9 thru 12 are our high school years & we do call them freshman, sophomore, junior & senior . . .
Which also applies to college!!!!
Interesting fact : at the service academies ( USNA, West Point, Air Force ) they call their freshmen ‘plebes’, sophomores are ‘youngsters’, but the top classes ( 3rd & 4th yr ) are called junior & senior, like regular colleges.
Some fun facts about North American area codes. When the first area codes were created back in the 1940s, states with one area code had a zero as the second digit and states with multiple area codes had a one as the second digit. Also, area codes were assigned based on population concentration, with the most highly populated areas having lower numbers in the area code. This was done so that it would take less time to dial the number on a rotary phone. New York City had the "shortest" area code of 212, Los Angeles had 213, Chicago had 312, etc.
I use a 24hr clock or “military time” after I got used to it playing certain Japanese games as a kid and, y’know, living in Japan for 6 years. Most people here don’t, though.
There's a lot of additional context that could be provided for this one. I should've started a list but I'm too lazy now. xD
Lawrence: "Turns out Americans don't use military time."
*Amateur radio operators have entered the chat*
Speaking as one such operator, we most often use UTC (GMT) for recording radio contact ranges!
Nil is so common in the usa too😂 as well as MANY MANY MANY people say "oh seven two"
I do 7 with a cross in the middle! It helps so much in medical field/ documenting
lol, so fluent with the conversions. The clock sometimes just say AM/PM, but having a similar sleep situation, I have had that confusion multiple times. Usually the first indicator is sunlight. But sometimes if it's dusk or dawn, it's "wait, is the sun going up or down? Is it early morning or evening?" But most hours of the day aren't that ambiguous.
If the blinds stopped the light entirely, I'm gonna need the clock to say AM/PM (phone and computer do)
I always write my 7 with the line through it to avoid confusion with 1.
Loved this one! 👍
America here. I dont the 7 that way sometimes
Both houses where I grew up were 4 digits, my apartment in college was also 4. But my current house and where I lived in high school were only 3. They're high because each block is a new hundred so my high school apartment 929, was the 9th block from where the road started. The first block on the road might have 1 or 2 digit addresses.
My house in Phoenix was 50415 North something Street. That's how we number.
AND our "Zip" codes, or "Postal Codes" are 5 numbers. The Post Office tried to introduce a 4digit suffix, about 20 years ago. Didn't take hold
I feel like pointing out that in the us there are a lot of people that use the 24 hour clock because frankly its more convenient or they work in computers and having the logs be in a clear order without am and pm is quite helpful
According to Wikipedia: “ZIP Codes are numbered with the first digit representing a certain group of U.S. states, the second and third digits together representing a region in that group (or perhaps a large city) and the fourth and fifth digits representing a group of delivery addresses within that region.”
“In 1983, the U.S. Postal Service introduced an expanded ZIP Code system that it named ZIP+4, often known as "plus-four codes", "add-on codes", or "add-ons". A ZIP+4 Code uses the basic five-digit code plus four additional digits to identify a geographic segment within the five-digit delivery area, such as a city block, a group of apartments, an individual high-volume receiver of mail, a post office box, or any other unit that could use an extra identifier to aid in efficient mail sorting and delivery. However, the new format was not adopted universally by the public; it eventually became obsolete with modern technology.”
You know if it's 2:00 a.m. or 2:00 p.m. by saying a.m. or p.m.. and the clocks do also.
We also say O for zero when reading off a number and always have.
And when I was in the military we put the cross line in our 7 so it doesn't get confused with a poorly written 2.
The look on Lewis's face when he says June 6th and says, "Oh, wait. That IS how you say it!" because he heard January 6th in his head because of TV news... 😂
When GPS addresses was adopted in a neighboring county that had no incorporated cities or towns, the first street was 999th Avenue. The streets go down in numbers to the Northern border of the county that actually has a 0 street! Mad!