Date:  Tue, 30 Nov 1993 11:52:00 EST

From:  "Charles M. Rosenberg" <BORSO[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IRISHMVS.BITNET>

Subject: Re: Half Past the Hour



I was born and raised in and near Chicago and went to college

near Philadelphia. To my ear three-thirty is the norm, though

I have heard half-past three as well.

Charles M. Rosenberg, University of Notre Dame