How to read a SSN

[nq:1]What is the most popular way to read a Social Security Number, e.g. 123-45-6789? I always read the nine numbers one by one.[/nq]
In English, just about all long numbers (more than two digits) are read digit by digit, including Social Security numbers.

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[nq:2]What is the most popular way to read a Social Security Number, e.g. 123-45-6789? I always read the nine numbers one by one.[/nq]
[nq:1]In English, just about all long numbers (more than two digits) are read digit by digit, including Social Security numbers.[/nq]
I agree, though for ease of transcription, it's best to break the stream of digits up into 'phrases'. "One two three.. four

[nq:2]What is the most popular way to read a Social Security Number, e.g. 123-45-6789? I always read the nine numbers one by one.[/nq]
[nq:1]In English, just about all long numbers (more than two digits) are read digit by digit, including Social Security numbers.[/nq]
As long as it isn't ambiguous, some people would read some telephone numbers with some of the digits as two digit pairs. Th

[nq:2]In English, just about all long numbers (more than two digits) are read digit by digit, including Social Security numbers.[/nq]
[nq:1]I agree, though for ease of transcription, it's best to break the stream of digits up into 'phrases'. "One two three.. four five.. six seven eight nine." "My phone number is two five zero.. five five five.. one two one two"[/nq]
I agree with you. But,

[nq:1]I agree with you. But, people usually read the year of 1968 as "nineteen sixty-eight",[/nq]
Yes
[nq:1]the year of 2004 as "twenty o four",[/nq]
I more often hear "two thousand and four".
I have heard older people in my youth refer to "aught six" or "oh six" meaning 1906, but I've not heard that usage for dates at the start of this century.
[nq:1]the address of 234 as "two

[nq:1]I agree with you. But, people usually read the year of 1968 as "nineteen sixty-eight" ...[/nq]
These are long numbers. Also, years often get special treatment.
[nq:1]... the year of 2004 as "twenty o four" ...[/nq]
I've usually heard "two thousand four," although usage varies widely, and by the time it settles down it will be 2010, anyway. It's true that for the last century the

[nq:1]As long as it isn't ambiguous, some people would read some telephone numbers with some of the digits as two ... example, "seventy" is faster than "seven zero" or even "seven oh", although granted not by much in the last instance.[/nq]
There's more than speed, though: seventy sounds too much like seventeen.

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[nq:2]What is the most popular way to read a Social Security Number, e.g. 123-45-6789? I always read the nine numbers one by one.[/nq]
[nq:1]In English, just about all long numbers (more than two digits) are read digit by digit, including Social Security numbers.[/nq]
It depends on the digits. For the phone number "435-5000", I would be likely to say "four three five five-thousand", and "4

[nq:2]As long as it isn't ambiguous, some people would read ... oh", although granted not by much in the last instance.[/nq]
[nq:1]There's more than speed, though: seventy sounds too much like seventeen.[/nq]
Eighty and eighteen. If there's noise on the line, well, do you say 'niner' for nine? Every notice how movies with airplane pilots talking using numbers often try to work in some nine