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occasionally we're reminded that other countries format their phone numbers differently and it's just a few moments of ???????? while we ponder how odd it is that arbitrary things can be taken for granted to such an extent that a different arbitrary thing can feel "wrong"
@Felthry random: Tom Scott did a pretty good explainer on the structure of UK numbers on one of the Park Bench videos he did with Matt Gray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsxRaFNropw
@Felthry I was *so* unsettled when I first lived in Singapore, where the numbers were seven digits, yes, but would get grouped together however somone liked it. Like, your number's 636-3623? Write it out 63 63 62 3, that's good!
When they added an area code digit (well, land-line versus cell-phone) everybody seemed to settle on (like) 6636 3623 and that was that. but it may have evolved since then.