Date:  Tue, 30 Nov 1993 13:47:07 -0500

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

Subject: Re: Quarter to/till/of the Hour



For the record, LAMSAS records show that each of these three variants

occurs in about half the LAMSAS communities, and each is significantly

clustered according to the spatial autocorrelation statistic.

Observation of a plot (I can make a plot in about 60 seconds with

the LAMSASplot program I wrote, provided that we have completed the

database for the question wanted; the LAMSASplot program requires a

Mac with 13" screen, and you can have it free) _quarter till_ is a

Midland and Southern item, with heaviest concentration in West Virginia;

_quarter to_ has a rather curious distribution, with concentrations in

eastern Virginia and eastern North Carolina, but also the Inland North

and the coastal South; _quarter of_ occurs north of the Mason Dixon

line, but with many scattered occurrences in the Appalachians and Upland

South. We also have responses with "15" and "45", but I have not plotted

them.



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