But “9/11”? It’s not even clear whether to call it a word. True, we had precedents for labeling an event with the month and the day: the Fourth of July for one, and December 7, 1941 (“a date that will live in infamy”), for another. Neither of those, however, is ever represented in numeral form, neither “7/4” nor “12/7.”
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