Taking down postcodes and telephone numbers – key
1) CA23 3AY
07713 108452
2) BN43 5FB
01622 734038
3) SY6 5EZ
01587 638098
4) GU8 6NS
01483 811009
5) SX9 6JW
01694 722593
6) LA12 8BD
01539 539012
7) DL8 3TB
01969 663856
8) YO30 6LP
01904 620917
9) HR3 5AJ
01497 820008
10) PE12 8SG
01675 724191
You may already know that the numbers in postcodes are given in full – forty-three – whereas for telephone numbers we say each number individually.
Typical mistakes
In number 3 the ‘z‘ – ‘zed‘ (pronounced as in ‘bed’) sometimes catches people out – especially if you are expecting a sound closer to ‘ts’ or know the American pronunciation which is ‘zee‘, rhyming with ‘bee’.
Numbers 4,5, 9 and 10 checked an old chestnut (=a common difficulty) of mistaking ‘g‘s for ‘j‘s.