Date:  Tue, 30 Nov 1993 13:59:33 EST

From:  Dan Mosser <MOSSERD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VTVM1.BITNET>

Subject: noon and points around it



 So "half-past noon" works for some...I find that interesting because

the other day my brother said "quarter to noon" and it struck me as odd;

when I asked him about it, he said it sounded odd to him too. So I wasn't

sure whether it might be purely a performance error, or an incipient

neomorphism, or what. Can those of you for whom "half-past noon" is

OK buy quarter-to or ten'til noon? Dan Mosser