Why do people say 'telephone number' when clearly there are more than one number?

[ManSnake]

Shouldn't it be telephone numbers instead of telephone number?

 

[rh71]

I just ask for their digits.

 

[KarenMarie]

for the same reason that ppl ask for a social security number or bank account number.

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: ManSnake
Shouldn't it be telephone numbers instead of telephone number?

It's one long number.

 

[Reel]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: ManSnake
Shouldn't it be telephone numbers instead of telephone number?

It's one long number.

:thumbsup:

 

[jumpr]

ID number
PIN (Personal Identification NUMBER)
Social Security number
Drivers License number
House number
Bank account number
Credit card number
Delivery Confirmation number
Tracking number
Confirmation number

 

[scorpmatt]

Telephone number = a set of individual numbers that you dial on a phone to call some one.

Telephone numbers = seperate sets of numbers that people have so others can reach them via the telephone.

Here's 2 quarters, call someone who cares...

 

[cavemanmoron]

social security Number,
drivers license Number.

singular.

 

[Cattlegod]

that is fine because the telephone number is one number.

now, the one that bothers me is the PIN number.

 

[ManSnake]

Originally posted by: scorpmatt
Telephone number = a set of individual numbers that you dial on a phone to call some one.

Telephone numbers = seperate sets of numbers that people have so others can reach them via the telephone.

Here's 2 quarters, call someone who cares...

'Here're' not 'here's'

 

[Tu13erhead]

Originally posted by: Reel

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: ManSnake
Shouldn't it be telephone numbers instead of telephone number?

It's one long number.

:thumbsup:

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[jagec]

all those paranthesis and dashes that we put in our telephone # are just memory aids...the "real" number is one big one, like 5128469385.

 

[crownjules]

Originally posted by: Cattlegod
that is fine because the telephone number is one number.

now, the one that bothers me is the PIN number.

ATM machine.
NIC card.

Aggrivating.

 

[HN]

imagine asking one person - "what's your names?"

 

[imported_LoKe]

So I assume 666 is a "numbers"? No. It's a collection of numbers forming another number.

 

[neovan]

1 is a number
398475439 is a number
18004475739 is a number

 

[SampSon]

This is a really dumb question.

 

[torpid]

To be fair, if someone asks me for my telephone number, in some cases I give them 2-3 numbers (home, work, cell). OK, not so much fair as charitable.

 

[arcenite]

It is one number as the other people have stated. That is why you do not see any - keys on your telephone's keypad.

 

[harobikes333]

ya its a set of data so its singular. I think anyway

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: Tu13erhead

Originally posted by: Reel

Originally posted by: Phoenix86

Originally posted by: ManSnake
Shouldn't it be telephone numbers instead of telephone number?

It's one long number.

:thumbsup:

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[SilentZero]

Its a sequence hense a number

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: rh71
I just ask for their digits.

I'll give you my digits.

Five across the eyes! :|

 

[JDrake]

its like "la gente" in spanish

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: ManSnake
Shouldn't it be telephone numbers instead of telephone number?

Should 100 be referred to as a number or 3 numbers? duh.