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vincent-manis | 1 month ago

I tried "4765" (four syllables), and got "sixty-nine squared plus four" (6 syllables).

The ICAO phonetic alphabet specifically pronounces "4" as "fouwer", and "9" as "niner", so as to increase redundancy on a noisy channel.

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moeffju|1 month ago

You got "four thou-sand se-ven hun-dred six-ty-five" :)

vincent-manis|1 month ago

Nope, I got "four seven six five", which is exactly how I would read that number if it were a street address, or a phone extension, or an inumber, or the like. You will notice that the site doesn't give any context about the usage of these numbers.