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Question telephone number

This is a telephone number 9877543. Do American people say "double seven" or not? Thanks
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Default Re: telephone number

No. We usually say telephone numbers as individual digits: nine-eight-seven (pause) seven-five-four-three.

We usually pause briefly after saying the first three digits.
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