Phrases & Sayings

'credit crunch' '9/11' etc... who invents these phrases?

Please can you explain to me who coined the phrase 'credit crunch' I cannot find any information online as to where it originates from.

Also can you explain who invented the terms '9/11' and '7/7'? I am interested to know why it has become fashionable to abbreviate these serious events in such a tacky way, and why the trend continues.

Can the origin of these phrases be traced back to individuals?

thanks

Roland75 Tue 22/04/08 12:56

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Quizmonster
Tue 22/04/08
15:50

Basically, some element of the media first comes up with the snappy title/headline and the rest are onto it in a flash, so that it soon becomes the accepted way of defining whatever the news-item is. Let's say it appears as a Sun headline and the Today programme mentions it in their "What the papers say" segment and then it's off!
I'm sure modern versions could be traced to an individual.

fredpuli47
Tue 22/04/08
23:50

9/11 is the American way of writing the 11th of September. We would write 11/9. 911 is also the number that Americans dial in the US when they need the emergency services, just as we in Britain would dial 999.

That was not lost on al Qaeda, who chose the date precisely because it was the same 'number' and therefore memorable. That's why it was so telling and why Americans refer to it as '911' ,said as '9 11' and not 'nine hundred and eleven'. '9 11' is how they would say the phone number, and perhaps, the date too.

7/7 is simply a date but it's a fair guess that the British terrorists chose it because it was easily remembered.

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