True
But when I read out the phone number I tend to break it down into chunks, so

0207 ... ... makes perfect sense.
( rofl harris, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:25, 2 replies)

no it doesn't, 0207 is meaningless
Why not break it into little chunks after the area code?
020 7xxx xxxx
or
020 8xxx xxxx

It's not fucking rocket science
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:27, closed)

It doesn't matter that it's meaningless (well to me)
It's just a list of numbers, which is what people want when they ask for my number.
( rofl harris, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:30, closed)

I bet you break you postcode down into sector & district when you read out your address

( rofl harris, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:31, closed)

My postcode has two parts, with a gap in the middle
I read out the first part, then a brief pause, then the second part
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:33, closed)

Except
that if you're in London, and making a call to another phone in London, you can omit the 020 - the dialling code - like you would do with any other dialling code in any other part of the country, and still get through. Thus proving that 020 is the one and only dialling code.
Rant far from over.
(i.charlius *Two Ronnies Theme*, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:29, closed)

^this is why I gave the OP a click.
We have a similar problem up here in Leeds. People who give the area code as 01132 for the main number, for example, then confuse the fuck out of the person they're speaking to by giving out another number as "the area code plus 3******".
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 1 Apr 2011, 17:34, closed)