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Colin Rosenstiel · July 17th 05, 02:34 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Stephen Farrow) wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article ,
(Stephen Farrow) wrote:

Martin Underwood wrote:

"Loony Tune" wrote in message
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I'm surprised they haven't changed the number for their emergency
services as a 'mark of respect'

Funny you should say that. It was my first thought when I heard
people referring to the Twin Towers attacks as "9/11".

Though, to be fair, the emergency services number is always read as
"nine-one-one", never as "nine-eleven".

Not that I recall (from before 2001).

Really? I've been living in North America since 1998 - admittedly in
Canada, though the emergency number is the same here (and I travel
south to the USA fairly frequently) - and lived in New York State for a
few months in 1993, and I've *never* heard anybody read the number as
"nine eleven".

So my US citizen brother confirms today. So why the 9/11 epithet for the
bombing of the twin towers? I remember being today of the link with the US
emergency number at the time too.

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Colin Rosenstiel