Wednesday, April 4, 2018

pronunciation - Use of Dash or Hyphen in Telephone Numbers


If reading out a telephone number


e.g. 123-456789


Denwa bangō wa ichi ni san - yon go roku nana hachi kyū desu


What is the dash / hyphen called? Is it spoken? If so how is it pronounced or how do you write it?



Answer



I think you can either pause at a dash or read it as の.


As you can see in this page, where two professional announcers are discussing how to correctly read/pronounce numbers, it is also correct to read a phone number 03-1230-4050 as 「れいさん いちにさんれい よんれいごれい」.



Also in this TV commercial they read 0120-999-666 as 「ぜろいちに(い)ぜろ きゅうきゅうきゅう ろくろくろく」, and in this TV commercial 0120-666-666 as 「ぜろいちに(い)ぜろ ろくろくろく ろくろくろく」.


So, for example 0123-456-7890 can be read:



「れいいちに(い)さん (pause) よんご(お)ろく (pause) ななはちきゅうれい」-- pausing at each dash
「れいいちに(い)さん (pause) よんご(お)ろく ななはちきゅうれい」-- using a pause and の
「れいいちに(い)さん よんご(お)ろく ななはちきゅうれい」-- using の



Actually in recent years it has become much more common to read the number "0" as 「ぜろ」 than as 「れい」 (at least in real life), as in:



「ぜろいちに(い)さん (pause) よんご(お)ろく (pause) ななはちきゅうぜろ」

「ぜろいちに(い)さん (pause) よんご(お)ろく ななはちきゅうぜろ」
「ぜろいちに(い)さん よんご(お)ろく ななはちきゅうぜろ」



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