Interestingly, the term "O'Clock" is a term that has survived in English
since mediaeval times. It is a contraction of "of the clock". So, for
example, "nine o'clock" is a shortened version of nine of the clock".

Mark.
Auckland, New Zealand.

"uncle arnie" &mex. wrote in message
...
Thanks, you gave me the origin of this as well as the meaning by this
post.

I imagine we could also do some other terms too.

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 12:14 pm, Al Patrick posted
to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

Ace,

I knew YOU knew. I wasn't too sure about the party asking the original
question. ;-)

Al

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dxAce wrote:

Al Patrick wrote:


The "Quarter of" / "Quarter till" and "Quarter past" / "Quarter
after"
that dxAce and Keyboard in the Wilderness have mentioned refer to a
"Quarter" of an hour.


Well... yes, that's exactly what 15 minutes is!



dxAce wrote:


uncle arnie wrote:



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).


Quarter of 10 means 15 minutes to 10.

Zulu is used the same as UTC and GMT. Zulu is more of a military term.

dxAce
Michigan
USA