@neauoire the Belgian use the same! It's funny how I've grown up with that nonsense and it's only as an adult that I realised how ridiculous that must sound to non-France-french speakers 😅
"Four-twenty-ten-nine" for 99. Lol and ugh.
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@stragu @neauoire Four-Twenty-Ten-Nine system is specially annoying over the phone because there's a lot less indicators from the speaker so you can easily end up having to cross out wrongly written numbers mid-way.