9/11

911 9・11 9-1-1 English thumb|alt=The World Trade Center was burning down with a large explosion on the south tower immediately after being struck.|The north face of Two World Trade Center (south tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175 Alternative forms en 911 9-11 nine-eleven Etymology From the date September 11 written numerically with the Date and time notation in the United States notation used in the United States, in the month–day format. Pronunciation en /ˌnaɪn.əˈlɛ.vən/ en en-us-nine eleven.ogg US en ɛvən 4 Proper noun en 2001-09-11 September 11, 2001; The date of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in the United States. en September eleventh en Q10806 en metonym September 11 attacks The attacks themselves. en September eleventh en 21 May 2013 w:Norm Macdonald w:Norm Macdonald Live 3 11 comedy Hey, for the ninth consecutive year, Nick, JetBlue Airlines ranked first for satisfaction among all North American airlines. But, you know what ranked least in satisfaction? 9/11 Airlines. What a terrible name for an airline; it reminds me of that tragedy. en 2014-11-17 w:Roger Cohen The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/opinion/roger-cohen-the-evil-of-isis.html https://web.archive.org/web/20210610003946/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/opinion/roger-cohen-the-evil-of-isis.html What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq. en 2015-11-26 Claire Phipps New York Times slams 'outrageous' Donald Trump for mocking reporter's disability https://web.archive.org/web/20250326015830/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/26/new-york-times-outrageous-donald-trump-mocking-reporter-disability Republican front-runner twisted his arms in apparent imitation of Serge Kovaleski’s arthrogryposis as he reiterated controversial 9/11 claims en 2019-09-01 Claire Wardle Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder w:Scientific American https://web.archive.org/web/20250401045938/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/misinformation-has-created-a-new-world-disorder/ As someone who studies the impact of misinformation on society, I often wish the young entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley who enabled communication at speed had been forced to run a 9/11 scenario with their technologies before they deployed them commercially. Usage notes The pronunciation "nine-one-one" is usually used for the telephone number 911 instead of the date. Translations September 11 attacks Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 九一一事件 Jiǔ-yāo-yāo Shìjiàn, cmn 9·11事件 Jiǔ-yāo-yāo Shìjiàn Danish: da 11. september Finnish: fi WTC-isku French: fr 11 septembre m German: de 11. September m Hindi: hi ९/११ 9/11, hi ९/११ हमले m 9/11 hamle Japanese: ja 9・11 kyū ichi ichi, ja アメリカ同時多発テロ Polish: pl 11 września m Portuguese: pt Onze de Setembro m, pt 11 de Setembro m Spanish: es 11S, es 11-S Swedish: sv 11 september-attackerna Turkish: tr onbir eylül, tr 11 eylül Noun An event comparable to the September 11 attacks. en 2005 Peter H. Merkl The Rift Between America And Old Europe: The Distracted Eagle Routledge 73 Eleven million Spaniards responded to "their 9/11" by demonstrating in the rain against terrorism and their government's policies. en 2006-04-14 w:The Age http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Moussaoui-says-he-wants-more-911s/2006/04/14/1144521487238.html Moussaoui says he wants more 9/11s "I thought about ... the consequences for me saying I was a part of 9/11. I decided to just put my trust in God and tell the truth and time will tell," he said. https://web.archive.org/web/20220124170548/https://www.theage.com.au/world/moussaoui-says-he-wants-more-9-11s-20060414-gdnd62.html en 2006 Michael Weissenstein Nations respond to their '9/11s' International Institute for Strategic Studies https://web.archive.org/web/20080408232451/http://www.iiss.org/whats-new/iiss-in-the-press/press-coverage-2006/september-2006/nations-respond-to-their-911s/ But experts who have studied these other "9/11s" say some offer important revelations, by comparison, about how America responded to its own. en 2007 David E. Long; Bernard Reich; Mark Gasiorowski The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa Jordanians referred to this horrific event as "their 9-11". en 2023-10-09 Ben Doherty Israel military says situation ‘dire’ in south as 260 bodies retrieved from festival https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/09/supernova-festival-israel-attack-hamas-military-death-toll-kibbutz-reim Drawing a US analogy, he said the weekend’s attack, for Israel, “could be a 9/11 and a Pearl Harbor wrapped into one”. https://web.archive.org/web/20231104072812/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/09/supernova-festival-israel-attack-hamas-military-death-toll-kibbutz-reim en Internet slang humorous hyperbole A negative event that a person or a group of people have experienced whose impact is, hyperbolically, comparable to that of the September 11 attacks. en This was my 9/11. en 9/11 for unfunny people Translations event comparable to 9/11 Hindi: hi २६/११ 26/11 Polish: pl 11 września m Portuguese: pt Onze de Setembro m, pt 11 de Setembro m Spanish: es 11S m, es 11-S m Derived terms pre-9/11 See also Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year Anagrams en 119 119 en Historical events History of the United States