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- From: maj@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: right time
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.202917.9644@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 20:29:17 +1200
- References: <Brr6t4.83F@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <SLAGLE.92Jul21232846@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com> <1992Jul24.110112.7781@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <1992Jul24.110112.7781@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- > In article <SLAGLE.92Jul21232846@sgi417.msd.lmsc.lockheed.com>, slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com (Mark Slagle) writes:
- >> In article <Brr6t4.83F@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, baron@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Dennis Baron) writes:
- >>
- >>> Neither expert opted for `a quarter till,' presumably because
- >>> they considered it dialect (=South Midland). But what's a
- >>> well-intentioned consulter of usage experts to do in such a
- >>> case?
- >>
- >> A quarter before seven.
- > Or whatever sounds right to you. In this neck of the woods the
- > alternatives are "six forty-five" and "a quarter to seven."
- > Anything else is understood, but understood to be local dialect
- > or foreign.
- >
- [stuff deleted]
-
- While we're talking about time, can we characterise the areas where
- people say 'half seven' for 7:30 ? Here in NZ I here it mainly from
- people from the south of the South Island, which was settled in large
- part from Scotland.
-
- > Stephen Wilcox | Remember what happened to the dinosaurs!
- > wilcox@maths.oxford.ac.uk | I did---and look what happened to me.
- --
- Murray A. Jorgensen [ maj@waikato.ac.nz ] University of Waikato
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics Hamilton, New Zealand
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