Date:  Wed, 6 Dec 1995 16:36:18 -0600

From:  EJOHNSON[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MSUVX2.MEMPHIS.EDU

Subject: Re: Time clock



You've obviously not had a job where you punch a time card upon arrival and

departure to verify the number of hours you'd get paid for. The machine that

marks the time on the card is a time clock. Some days I wish I had that kind

of job again (Not Really, I didn't mean it!) The advantage is you don't have

to drag home stacks of papers to grade on a daily basis (because they never get

graded the first few times you drag them home).



Ellen JOhnson

ejohnson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]cc.memphis.edu





>From: IN%"ADS-L[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]uga.cc.uga.edu" "American Dialect Society" 6-DEC-1995 16:17:34.24

>Subj: Time clock

>

>I just heard, in the lyrics to a song

>by the Tractors, the expression "time clock."

>

>Is this a common expression? I've never heard it.

>

>What other kinds of "clock" are there besides

>those of the "time" variety? I'm stumped.

>

>The Tractors, btw, are from Oklahoma.

>

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