Re: This day

On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:53 PM, MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 3/23/2007 12:56:45 PM Central Daylight Time,
> jimhenry1973@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
>
>> On 3/23/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
>>>  .........  But "top" and
>>> "bottom of the hour" are quite intuitive to me, relating as they
>>> do to
>>> the minute hand's position at the top or bottom of the clock,
>>> respectively.
>>
>> Do you mean you understand "bottom of the hour"
>> to signify "N:30 plus or minus a few minutes" and
>> "top of the hour" to signify "N:00 plus or minus
>> a few minutes?
>>
>
> To me, "top/bottom of the hour" is fairly precise: the N:00 or N:30
> times.
> It's not exact though, so it could be stretched a little either,
> but it would
> be a stretch.
I had never heard of or thought of this interpretation until it came
up on this list. To me, the bottom of an hour is the very end of it.
I did some searching and found this: [ http://www.bartleby.com/
68/98/6098.html ], which says:

	The top of the hour and the bottom of the hour are broadcasting and
possibly advertising jargon for the beginning and end of an hour or
half hour of broadcasting time; they also mean “on the hour” and “on
or at the half hour.”

This doesn't really seem to clear anything up for me!

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