Old thread. Azizi is not around here so much nowadays to start new ones.

Numbers do have 'resonances' though not physically. They 'ring bells' and 'strike chords' in our minds. And As Azizi said further up the thread, what they mean depends on your origins and culture.

To me 9 perhaps represents incompleteness. Petrol prices are quoted as 139.99p to avoid saying one pound 40 pence. I can remember when shops charged three and eleven pence three farthings (i.e. a farthing less than four shillings, which sounded a lot more).

But trying to think of 9 songs & rhymes all I could come up with was
Nine Taylors make a man.

From my reading of Dorothy Sayers I gather that if a church bell was tolled 9 times it meant a man had died. May have been common knowledge when she was writing but not to me.