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Abbreviating terror: 9/11 in the press

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2003

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On and around the first anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center, the world's press made full use of ‘9/11’ (also the national emergency telephone number in the US). The symbolism of number/divider/number has not replaced either ‘September 11’ or ‘Sept. 11’, but added to them by giving the date a special resonance. It may yet become the key name for the whole horrific series of events.

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English Today , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 62 - 64
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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