nine-one-one vs. nine-eleven?

[Steve K.]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Bruce Dykes wrote:

> I wonder how this compares to four-one-one. The slang term, not the number.
> Is four-eleven ever actually used, or is it always four-one-one?

They used it at the Wilcox High School _Scribe_ Feb/March 99 issue "The
most recent four eleven on some of the biggest hits out in music
stores" was the headline
(http://www.wilcox.scu.k12.ca.us/scribe/fm99_ent2.html)

That was the closest thing I found searching on "four eleven" in google
and looking at the first 500 hits. (I used -bible to delimit search due to
a high number of hits for the Four Eleven Foundation which appears to take
their name from Ephesians 4:11 [looking quickly at their homepage].)

four eleven was used in the context of 'information' a few other random
places (it was actually neat to see all the ways it was used in other
context, like four eleven year old ducks, etc), but the Wilcox thing was
it as far as that goes. I didn't look at newspapers yet, but I figured
that if it were used anywhere, it would be in music lyrics where "four
eleven" scanned better than "four one one" but I didn't see any lyrics.

Anyhow, that's all the time I have for that this morning. Feel free to
carry on if you're interested.

--- Steve K.