Numbers and alphabets in American style

Though I am not native speaker, one thing that Finnish school system is great about is grammar and spelling in foreign languages. Which is good cause in average in US one gets to spell things lot more than what I was used to in Finland and e.g. in Germany.

Finnish tends to be more phonetic with the logic "what you see is what you get". So, for names and addresses one does not come across the need to spell them out loud unless they are of foreign origin.
US being the mecca of everything-being-originally-more-or less-of-foreign-origin and with some localization attempts in between something that sounds the same can be written in dozens of different ways.

It seems that here I tend to get myself in trouble, has happened more than once. No matter how carefully I try to spell.

When spelling my current last name it tends to always get still wrong.
In the beginning I spelled it on the phone the way I had gotten used to doing it e.g. while living in Singapore: R-double O-S.
I stopped saying the "double O", cause nearly 90% of the time that resulted to ROSS or RWS :o)

After the wedding in June I will have really easy name from local perspective...so I trust that will decrease the need of spelling my last name :o)

When it comes to giving the address or talking about numbers, getting married won't solve that one...
Again, I have started giving the address the way I learned to do it in Singapore (and honestly it worked there!!). But here for some reason when I say " seven-hundred and five" or "seven-hundred-five" it results to 7005. Thanks to that I have been waiting for my laptop now for 2 weeks back from the repair. The poor UPS courier must be so fed up by now..... Running around and trying to find a building that does not exist. Every time UPS called I confirmed the address to be " seven-hundred and five". Which basically continued the poor UPS guy to get totally confused and the computer was sent back few times to shipper.

As I was guided by my fiancé I should give the numbers as: seven-[oh]-five. Though he confirmed technically I was saying correctly as " seven-hundred and five".

After 4 calls and changing the way to seven-[oh]-five I have been successful and get my laptop back tomorrow :o) :o)

When I am at the store, if the amount to pay would be, let's say the same 705 dollars. Then the right way is " seven-hundred and five". Though, there it seems to have variations....depending on where one is :o)

I learned a lot again.....knowing how to spell perfectly or how to technically do it right, does not guarantee the right results :o)