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.
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John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan
"The exception proves the rule." Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves
my theory." Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts
the rule to the proof." But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an
exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from."