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Re:All clocks are 30 seconds late by Suppafly on Monday January 06, 2025 @01:53PM (#42613930)
The only one that I know of as being an anachronism is saying "quarter of" or similar. At one point people decided that 'of' meant 'to' and after a while we forgot that because it was stupid. People still say quarter past though.
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Re:All clocks are 30 seconds late by aidenn0 on Monday January 06, 2025 @02:27PM (#42614444)
My teenage daughter needs me to explain it to her every time I say either "quarter past" or "quarter to"
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Re:All clocks are 30 seconds late by Suppafly on Monday January 06, 2025 @02:46PM (#42614748)
past and to are pretty self explanatory if you know English at all.
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