I'd heard some places did refer to 911 as "nine-eleven" when the
number first came into use, until they started getting complaints from
people who couldn't find the "eleven" button on their 'phone. Since
then, it's been very explicitly "nine-one-one". We here is the US got
911 as a single emergency number in the late 60's, early 70's.

73, doug


(Colin Rosenstiel) writes:

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).

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Colin Rosenstiel