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Re: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systems fromconlangs)

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 2:52
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 07:57:41PM -0700, Joseph Fatula wrote:
> 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.
I never say and rarely hear "of"; it's always "'til" or "until". Which have an interesting distribution, actually; I have never, ever heard "quarter until" - it's alway shortened to "quarter 'til" - but I have often heard "five minutes until" and similar. -Mark

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