> To everyone else, labelling a phone number 'text' makes much less sense than labelling a telephone number a number. In some jurisdictions there’s a strong cu

> To everyone else, labelling a phone number 'text' makes much less sense than labelling a telephone number a number. In some jurisdictions there’s a strong culture of having phone numbers represented as text - so they’re easier to remember. Especially popular for toll free numbers. I presume that this culture has lead to the popularity of overlaying the alphabet over numeric keypads, for banking machines and payment terminals. As a result, I remember some of my associated pass codes as words, not as numbers. So there are some real world scenarios where a human thinks a word, while the data item is a number.