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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: :-) A Brand-New Language! :-)
Date: 2000/04/06
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In article <38E8E738.45EE0CD5@hello.nl>,
  Karel Thoenissen <thoenissen@hello.nl> wrote:
Have they
> already reached a standard on the use of am and pm for the
time between
> 12.00 and 1.00? Or in the use of metric units?

Perhaps they don't teach Latin any more in the Netherlands :-)

There has never been any doubt that times after 12 noon are
pm (that's what the phrase means in Latin!)

Interesting to mention metrics units in the one area (times
and dates) where metric proposals have never succeeded in
any country :-)


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