uncle arnie wrote:
You got snow in Tronna?

No. The weather has been seasonably good here. I sure hope we do not
get what Halifax got.

Cheers!

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M2

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:40 am, Michael Moore posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

uncle arnie wrote:
You got snow in Tronna?

No. The weather has been seasonably good here. I sure hope we do not
get what Halifax got.

Cheers!


We had snow and now it's gone. Lows of 10, highs of 10-15 this week. May
we all be spared ice storms!

" Radio Flyer" wrote in message
...
"Quarter Of" and "Quarter After" are more southern terms, though used
other
places as well. "Quarter To" and "Quarter Past" are more northern terms
(Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Chicago). Zulu is also used in aviation.


"uncle arnie" wrote in message
...
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).

I'm from the EAST (PA & NJ). All of the above (Radio Flyer's) examples have
been and are still used. I think they are 'age' related, not regionally
related.

HankG

"HankG" no_one@invalid wrote in message
...

I'm from the EAST (PA & NJ). All of the above (Radio Flyer's) examples
have
been and are still used. I think they are 'age' related, not regionally
related.

HankG

I am sure that age may have something to do with it, but I have lived in all
of those places, and those are generally how they are used. But like I said,
you will hear any of them anywhere, but some are used more in some places.

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:37 am, HankG no_one@invalid posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

" Radio Flyer" wrote in message
...
"Quarter Of" and "Quarter After" are more southern terms, though used
other
places as well. "Quarter To" and "Quarter Past" are more northern terms
(Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Chicago). Zulu is also used in aviation.


"uncle arnie" wrote in message
...
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).

I'm from the EAST (PA & NJ). All of the above (Radio Flyer's) examples
have
been and are still used. I think they are 'age' related, not regionally
related.

HankG

No. They are not used in western Canada. It has been clarified that these
are Americanisms. Not related to age. Are you over 50?

One quareter of an hour to go before beginning the next hour (or
completing the current one).

uncle arnie wrote in message ...
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).

In article ,
says...
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

= = = BDK wrote in message
= = = ...
In article ,
says...
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
..
..

BDK wrote:


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...



The original poster's problem was not with the word "quarter", but with
the word "of". The phrase "a quarter of nine" is completely
meaningless... what exactly is one-fourth of nine o'clock, anyway?
9:15? But "a quarter of nine" actually means 8:45.

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:56:31 -0600, Tony Calguire
wrote:

BDK wrote:


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...



The original poster's problem was not with the word "quarter", but with
the word "of". The phrase "a quarter of nine" is completely
meaningless...

Meaningless??? I always understood it as meaning within a
quarter hour of being nine o'clock.

what exactly is one-fourth of nine o'clock, anyway?
9:15? But "a quarter of nine" actually means 8:45.