Re: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systems fromconlangs)
| From: | Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 2:45 |
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From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
Subject: Re: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systems
fromconlangs)
> Phillip Driscoll scripsit:
>
> > My mother (born 1926 in the midwestern USA) always said "of the" hour
> > for "till the hour." ("School starts this year at a quarter of nine." =
> > 8:45)
> > despite my protestations as a teenager that it makes no sense.
>
> I say "of" too, despite being born in 1958.
I'm finding that my own idiolect of English is rather conservative for an
American version, and this is more evidence to that fact. I say "at a
quarter of X", and I was born in 1981.
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