Tell me damn it: When the hell did zero become o?

[ohiosmith]

Like in phone numbers, scores, currency. When?

[datasuspect]

1. it is still zero at the rancho del datasuspect

[LSK]

2. I dont know 0hi0smith

[mainegreen]

3. Huh? News to me.

[ohiosmith]

4. When someone gives a phone number with 0 in it, they say o instead of zero.

This is starting to piss me off, damn it.

[unpossibles]

6. I still say zero, but I sometimes get strange looks for it. n/t

[Shakespeare]

5. "Zoom," 1971.

"Send it to Zoom!

Box three five OHHH!

Boston, Mass.....OOOOHHHH two ONE three FOOOOUR!!!"

:P

[ohiosmith]

8. Thank you. Now, who was and where do I find the bastard responsible?

[KitchenWitch]

7. I still say 'zero'

[ohiosmith]

9. My her0ine!

[sasquatch]

13. Me too

Great minds huh!
:hi:

[KitchenWitch]

15. For sure!

I will be getting to the Notary tomorrow morning!

:hi:

[sasquatch]

16. Thank you again for doing this

I cannot tell you how important this is to me!

[crispini]

10. I would be willing to bet that it is VERY old.

Because, you know, "Dial 0 for Operator" -- that's been around a LONG time. Hmmm..

[Squeech]

11. Hey, it could be worse

In Portuguese (at least in Brazil), there's an idiom to say "meia," half, to represent digit six in phone numbers and such. I assume the connection is that when it's half past the hour, the big hand is of course pointing at 6, but in phone numbers it's kinda out of context. But they do use it.

[trackfan]

12. Long before Eight-o-o. Three two five. Three five three five.

That was, and probably still is the Sheraton number. That commercial jingle has stayed in my head about 30 years.

[montanto]

14. Beverly Hills 9o21o

that's when.

[Shakespeare]

17. Nope, Zoom came first.

:7

[montanto]

18. ok ok, how about Hawaii Five oh

huh, how's them apples, that was the sixties. :D