A sudden realization just hit me:
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A sudden realization just hit me:
When I was learning English in school, many years ago, we were taught to say they hours with "o'clock"
Let's meet at 10 o'clock.
And I just realized that I have not seen "o'clock" in ages.
Does anyone actually still use it?
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A sudden realization just hit me:
When I was learning English in school, many years ago, we were taught to say they hours with "o'clock"
Let's meet at 10 o'clock.
And I just realized that I have not seen "o'clock" in ages.
Does anyone actually still use it?
@stfn@fedi.stfn.pl sometimes but like. sometimes
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A sudden realization just hit me:
When I was learning English in school, many years ago, we were taught to say they hours with "o'clock"
Let's meet at 10 o'clock.
And I just realized that I have not seen "o'clock" in ages.
Does anyone actually still use it?
@stfn British people speaking irl, sometimes
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A sudden realization just hit me:
When I was learning English in school, many years ago, we were taught to say they hours with "o'clock"
Let's meet at 10 o'clock.
And I just realized that I have not seen "o'clock" in ages.
Does anyone actually still use it?
@stfn it really has fallen into disuse. I used to say it and hear it all the time, but now folks just say “be there at three” omitting both the o’clock as well as the meridian.
Unrelated pet peeve: it bugs me when people suggest the
o’of o’clock is the same as theóof O'Malley (Ó Máille) -
A sudden realization just hit me:
When I was learning English in school, many years ago, we were taught to say they hours with "o'clock"
Let's meet at 10 o'clock.
And I just realized that I have not seen "o'clock" in ages.
Does anyone actually still use it?
@stfn
I think I say it only for emphssis when irked. For example, "I am so done with shoveling snow at six o'clock!!" But when it's just a normal, non irked time reference, I omit it, as in "I leave for work about seven." -
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