David wrote in message
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Is every bomb incident now going to be referred to by its date?
Referring to New Yorks as 9/11 (why are'nt we calling it 11/9) is bad
enough. Now we have 7/7. I'm still waiting to hear references to
Madrid's 11/3 or Bali's 12/10!
I hope one does not happen on 2nd February, 2/2 will sound rediculous



its becoming too much of a trend

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:57:23 +0000 (UTC), "dave F"
wrote:

I hope one does not happen on 2nd February, 2/2 will sound rediculous

its becoming too much of a trend

Getting into linguistic pedantry here, I think "9/11" is referred to
as such because there's not another short way to refer to it. "The
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" is a bit
long-winded.

By comparison, "the London bombings" is quite short and sufficiently
descriptive of such a conventional attack, and so I don't think we'll
get as many references to "7/7" except possibly from the other side of
the Atlantic.

Neil

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Neil Williams wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:57:23 +0000 (UTC), "dave F"
wrote:

I hope one does not happen on 2nd February, 2/2 will sound
rediculous

its becoming too much of a trend

Getting into linguistic pedantry here, I think "9/11" is referred to
as such because there's not another short way to refer to it. "The
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon" is a bit
long-winded.

By comparison, "the London bombings" is quite short and sufficiently
descriptive of such a conventional attack,

e.g. 14 Jun 1917, 29 Dec 1940, 20 Jul 1982, 24 Apr 1993, and many more.
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David Jul 15, 5:06 pm show options
Newsgroups: uk.transport.london
From: (David) -
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:06:13 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Fri,Jul 15 2005 5:06 pm
Subject: 9/11 - 7/7

Is every bomb incident now going to be referred to by its date?
Referring to New Yorks as 9/11 (why are'nt we calling it 11/9) is bad
enough. Now we have 7/7. I'm still waiting to hear references to
Madrid's 11/3 or Bali's 12/10!
I hope one does not happen on 2nd February, 2/2 will sound rediculous

Dave
The Reason its 9/11 is because the US emergency police fir &ambulance
is 911.

I'm alife long NYer but i was out of town on 9/11 but was at heathrow
when the london bombs went off.