Date:  Wed, 1 Dec 1993 07:45:39 EST

From:  Robert Kelly <kelly[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]LEVY.BARD.EDU>

Subject: Re: Half Past the Hour



Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I never heard any other expression for

the middle of the hour except half-past /h[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]p.p[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]st/ (where [AT SYMBOL GOES HERE] is digraph). Three

thirty was radio talk, we said half-past. Some Britons I know pronounce

three thirty as "half four."



rk