Date:  Tue, 30 Nov 1993 09:02:36 -0500

From:  "William A. Kretzschmar, Jr." <billk[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ATLAS.UGA.EDU>

Subject: Re: Half Past the Hour



In the LAMSAS data, _half after_ occurs in only 82 of 483 communities;

_half past_ occurs in 435 of 483 communities. According to our spatial

autocorrelation statistic, neither one is significantly clustered at the

p<.01 level we prefer (though p < .03 for _half after_, and its number of

occurrences is at the lower end of what is possible for the SA statistic,

so it is reasonable to say that it may well actually be clustered).

Observation of a plot of _half after_ suggests that in is Midland and

Southern, with scattered occurrences in northern urban centers and

upstate NY.



_xxx-thirty_ patterns in the LAMSAS data in South Carolina and Upstate

New York---it is a classic example of what we call a "McDavid

distribution", because Raven recorded the _xxx-thirty_ response when he

heard it but Guy Lowman didn't bother to write it down.



That's the facts, Natalie, from the 1930s and 40s.

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