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

David wrote:
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

It is called 9/11 because Americans put the month before the day. As it
happened there it`s not unreasonable for it to be known as 9/11 all
over.

I'm surprised they haven't changed the number for their emergency services
as a 'mark of respect'

Loony T

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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".

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".

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Is every bomb incident now going to be referred to by its date?

Be thankful the Aldgate bomb isn't being called "Aldgategate".

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Referring to New Yorks as 9/11 (why are'nt we calling it 11/9)

7/7 is a useful date, it lets americans refer to it as montth/day, and
us day/month, yet both know what we are on about.

Paul Weaver wrote:
Referring to New Yorks as 9/11 (why are'nt we calling it 11/9)

7/7 is a useful date, it lets americans refer to it as montth/day, and
us day/month, yet both know what we are on about.



So what will they call it if they blow a Seven Eleven on November the
seventh?

Good grief there's more to worry about, how will Clive Woodward
transform the Saints? Will Tim Henman take up commentary? And there's a
test against the Aussies on Thursday

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(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

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


Martin Underwood wrote:

"Loony Tune" wrote in message
...


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".

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