Change how road numbers are spoken in the UK
Speaking the A5183, for example, as "A fifty-one eighty-three" is confusing, since everybody I know calls it the "A five one eight three". The rules are a bit complicated, it's true, as we do use this pattern for two digit road numbers, three digit ending in 0, and roads ending in 00 or 000. But in all other cases we just speak the individual digits.
So
"A five"; "A ten"; "A sixty-six"; "A two hundred"; "A one thousand"; "A six fifty"; but "A six four seven"; "M six oh six" ; "A six oh three seven".
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Anonymous
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I love Waze, but this does irritate me. I agree with you.
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Richard Lebus
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I completely agree. They should change it as you suggest but of course they won’t!!
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Roger598
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Currently, road numbers are announced as if they are numbers - A thirty one, A two hundred and fifty nine and so on. Here in the UK, the convention is to do that with two digit roads but for longer numbers it should be individual digits. For example, it's A thirty one but A 2 5 9. It's very confusing with some of our smaller roads to have to figure where to turn when it says turn right at the A three thousand and twenty five when it means A 3 0 2 5.