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I'm surprised "Four Oh [X]" is specifically a Canadianism. I would have expected it to manifest more broadly, given things like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/409_(song)

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I don't really think it is...in Washington State for instance the highway through the Seattle suburbs is called "the four-oh-five" (there's a Death Cab For Cutie song about this one).

But that might be just because it's a bypass to I5/5/the 5 (depending on who you ask).

The Atlanta area code is definitely "four-oh-four" (and also the HTTP error)

I'm confused. How else would you pronounce it? Four hundred and four? Four-zero-four? That's just weird. :-)

I don't think I don't ever use "oh" for zero. FWIW, I'm from South Florida with New Jersey parents. The area code I grew up with is "three-oh-five".

I think it might be different for area codes that end in a zero - I remember 610 (Philly area, where I grew up) usually being pronounced "six-ten". On the other hand, 215 was always "two-one-five", never "two-fifteen". But I agree for those with zero in the middle, like 404 or 305.

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