What is a four niner?
What is a four niner? : a person who went to California in the gold rush of 1849.
Why do pilots call 9 niner?
Aviators often speak “pilot English” to avoid miscommunications over radio transmission. “Tree” for instance, means three, “fife” is the number five and “niner” means nine, says Tom Zecha, a manager at AOPA. The variations stemmed from a desire to avoid confusion between similar-sounding numbers, he says.
What was Los Angeles original name?
The original name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula (in English, The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the River Porciúncula), giving it both one of the longest and shortest (referring to its shortening of LA) place names in the world.
Do pilots still say Niner?
Pilots pronounce numbers similar to regular English, with a few exceptions: The number three (3) is pronounced “tree.” The number five (5) is pronounced “fife.” The number nine (9) is pronounced “niner.”