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I've never heard this before. What does "quarter of 10" mean? Is this
before 10 or after 10? I thought it was my hearing until this was
repeated. "quarter to" and "quarter after", rarely "quarter past" are all
usual ways of saying this around here. Though digital clocks make it "ten
fifteen". I think this must be a regionalism or slang for somewhere in the
USA (?).

I also hear "zulu" said instead of UTC (or the old GMT).


How old are you? I can't believe anyone over 25 hasn't
heard the term before. As others have posted, a
"quarter" is 15 minutes, AKA 1/4 of an hour...

BDK

FO&A,

Let us remember that Two Quarters make a Half.

As in "Half Past the Hour" (30 Minutes after the Hour)

The 'concept' of Quarters was most likely a Visual Imaging
{A Memory Tool} for many who were used to the old fashion
"Round" ANALOG Clocks and Watches.

Close Your Eyes and 'think' of the Round Clock face as a Pie Chart.

This Imaging of a Round Clock is were we also get the terms:
- Top-of-the-Hour {Exactly "On-the-Hour" - The Hour and Zero Minutes}
- Bottom-of-the-Hour {Exactly 30 Minutes Between Hours}


about: money, Money. MONEY !
The Quarter US Dollar 25 Cents is easy to understand. But the
expression "Two-Bits" is strange to many since 'One-Bit' would
be 12.5 Cents HUH? Unless one is told that a "Bit" referred
to a Piece-of-Eight (A 1/8th part 'piece' of a Spanish Coin
being a Piece-of-Eight) and at one time in our history the
US Quater Dollar was literaly compared to Two Pieces-of-Eight
- Hence the expression "Two-Bits" !

AMERICA'S TWO-BIT COINS - by Thomas LaMarre (ANA)
http://www.money.org/mtquarter.html

The Amazing Greenback Dollar and President, Abraham Lincoln
http://www.xat.org/cgi-bin/fcp.pl?wo...&d=/xat3a.html

The History of the "Greenback Dollar"
http://ecclesia.org/forum/uploads/bo...greenbackP.pdf


more than you wanted to know ~ RHF
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