Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 wrote:
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.

Which is why Americans are held in the esteem that they are.


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.