nine-one-one vs. nine-eleven?

[Aaron E. Drews]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 emckean at ENTERACT.COM wrote:

}In the UK, do folks say "nine-nine-nine" or something else?

"nine-nine-nine", yes.  If it were in a phone number, it would "tiple
nine" or "treble nine".

--Aaron


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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
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