Niner used in a sentence

Niner in a sentence as a noun

"five" and "nine" are tough to distinguish; that's why in radio comm we say, "niner.

> People should also adopt the "five" [sic] vs [sic] "niner" idiomI assume you mean 'fife' and?

English phonetic alphabets used for radio had pronunciations like 'tree' for 3 and 'niner' for 9.

Most of the digits sound distinct enough that they don't get confused- except "nine", which can sound like "five" over a bad radio link, and is therefore pronounced "niner".

It sounds a little bit like air traffic control: "roger dev gbe zero niner alpha one you are cleared for proto kernel scope link strip 4 dash 7 F L 11400 gamma zulu src please copy.

I believe the use of the pronunciation ‘niner’ instead of ‘nine‘ was because nine could be too easily confused with ‘five’.And ‘port’ replaced ‘larboard’ in the 19th century to avoid confusion.