Where is the boundary between 0207 and 0208 phone numbers?

[beeboo]

For instance - Hoi Polloi sounds posh to me and evidently others, and is often used in a sarcastic tone, making interpretation more difficult. It is understandable that people mistake it for referring to posh people rather than a word posh people would use to describe the lower classes.

I never realised there was any confusion or contention over the definition of "hoi polloi".

I
t's a Vietnamese fish curry isn't it?

 

[hipipol]

Fuck me, 7 pages of twadlle

This is NO real boundary now
We moved around 500 yards to our new home from the old and thus corssed the old "notional" boundary.
We kept the 7 prefix

So we is "cool and trendy" eh?

Good to know it!!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

According to the dictionary it means "read or examine thoroughly or carefully"

I think it's generally taken to mean you're looking over something casually or without attention to every detail - not examining it carefully.

Sadly because of it's wide misuse, in the last two years it has come to mean both.

Fucks me right off.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

You're going to have to explain the legs akimbo one to me though.

All this legs akimbo shit started about 10 years ago in 'comedy circles'.

Akimbo is a pose where you put your arms on your hips in an action style position. It is not 'arms akimbo' it is akimbo. You cannot have legs akimbo because akimbo referrers to the positioning of the arms.

Wankers.

 

[quimcunx]

Sadly because of it's wide misuse, in the last two years it has come to mean both.

Fucks me right off.

That's very precise. I though peruse was leisurely and not necessarily thorough from when I first heard of the word, ooh, 20 years ago, until first being told different possibly 10 or more years ago.

I still think of it as a leisurely scanning. I think that suits the word better.

I wonder if it is it's similarity to 'browse' that makes it confusing.

 

[Chz]

All right - to please the pedantic, and because I'm still curious, I'll rephrase the question:

Where *was* the boundary between 0171 and 0181?

Fucking happy now, you insane pedants?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

That's very precise. I though peruse was leisurely and not necessarily thorough from when I first heard of the word, ooh, 20 years ago, until first being told different possibly 10 or more years ago.

I still think of it as a leisurely scanning. I think that suits the word better.

I wonder if it is it's similarity to 'browse' that makes it confusing.

I've been keeping an eye on it. I noticed that it had officially been changed in the oxford English dictionary quite recently.

 

[quimcunx]

All right - to please the pedantic, and because I'm still curious, I'll rephrase the question:

Where *was* the boundary between 0171 and 0181?

Fucking happy now, you insane pedants?

I just googled ''0171 0181 boundaries''. the first two links were to this thread.

 

[xenon]

Never mind 0171. Go back to 071 and 081.

Heard nadir used improperly on the radio today. I'd have been livid. Had I not just found out it's proper meaning half an hour before myself.

 

[hipipol]

All right - to please the pedantic, and because I'm still curious, I'll rephrase the question:

Where *was* the boundary between 0171 and 0181?

Fucking happy now, you insane pedants?

Cant answer for all of it, but the bit near me runs down the middle of Ivydale Road, SE15
On the North side tyuo is well trendy and cool thats the even numbers
The other side of the street you is a country bumpkin - odd nos
Plus I used to have an 0181 on Lordship lane near the south circular

 

[teuchter]

Sadly because of it's wide misuse, in the last two years it has come to mean both.

Fucks me right off.

How do you feel about apostrophe misuse?

 

[Giles]

I remember reading that when Heseltine was setting up the London Docklands Development Corporation in the late 80s, the condition, or one of them, of moving half the City to Canary Wharf was keeping an 0171 prefix.

Shallow as well as greedy and stupid, these bankers, eh?

That's fairly small beer compared to what they are doing now, i.e. crashing the whole world's economy and demanding (no pun intended) telephone number bailouts. International telephone numbers at that.

Giles..

 

[T & P]

I just googled ''0171 0181 boundaries''. the first two links were to this thread.

Urban reigns supreme on the internets