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Originally Posted by issybird
Dove instead of dived makes this American's ears bleed.
Going back to the DD/MM v. MM/DD issue upthread, that's another where Americans retained the older usage while Britain switched to the more "logical" one. However, I think the Times (London) uses the archaic form.
A question with that in mind: Here in the US, 9/11 is shorthand for the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. I assume the ROW knows what we mean. But what kind of shorthand is employed elsewhere, assuming one is? Do others say 11/9? 9/11, following US form? Or something else entirely?
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It took me about two years after the attack to take "9/11" on board. I was always reading it as "the ninth of November". That's still what 9/11 means to me in any other context, but now it's simply a code, like a foreign name, such as "the Concertgebouw".