End of ADS-L Digest - 1 Dec 1993 to 2 Dec 1993

**********************************************





There are 25 messages totalling 555 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Half Past the Hour (6)

 2. (Fwd) Re: quarter of

 3. (Fwd) Re: half past

 4. th/dh (5)

 5. Eth and thorn - why did they vanish? (4)

 6. pen/hail/half past (2)

 7. Dark-thirty, quarter to dawn (2)

 8. ADS-L Digest - 1 Dec 1993 to 2 Dec 1993

 9. eth/thorn

 10. Sounding Northern

 11. NYTimes and disappearing Newyawkese



----------------------------------------------------------------------



Date:  Fri, 3 Dec 1993 08:49:42 +0100

From:  Jean LEDU <ledu[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CASSIS-GW.UNIV-BREST.FR>

Subject: Re: Half Past the Hour



As a complete outsider - being a Frenchman - I HAVE

discovered Twenty after three and twenty of three

in Stephen King's novel.What is the actual US norm?

Do twenty past and twenty to sound English to an American

ear.

Jean Le Du, Un. of Brest, France