Well . . . my original post said almost homophonic, but a quick trip to
m-w.com gave
accept \ik-ˈsept, ak- also ek-\
except \ik-ˈsept\
So, since Webster gave the same primary pronunciation for both, I thought that
I was maybe splitting hairs and removed the word almost.
Suffice to say,
At 18:47 o'clock PM, Joel C. Ewing said:
Thinking in terms of discontinuities: if one ignores the definitions and
insists on assigning noon and midnight some AM and PM designation, making
noon be PM introduces two discontinuities in the notation around noon (1159
AM - 1200 PM - 0001 PM) and
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:13, howard.brazee wrote:
My take is that the best way to deal with it is to write my programs to
recognize that not everybody will make the same assumptions on what 12:00
AM means.
Yours seems to be to assume that one irrational choice is more preferred
than the other
At 2006-02-21 09:08, Howard Brazee wrote:
But if someone enters 12:00 PM, obviously that is 12 after noon, not 12
before noon - but is midnight before or after noon?Nobody has a clock
that accepts 12:00 m or 12:00 mm.
Wrong as it is, the only reasonable way to interpret 12:00 PM is 12
At 2006-02-22 14:18, Howard Brazee wrote:
On 22 Feb 2006 10:13:26 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wrong as it is, the only reasonable way to interpret 12:00 PM is 12 Noon
because of its proximity to 12:01 PM, 12:02 PM, ... , 12:59 PM. Similarly
12:00 AM would be 12:00 Midnight.
12 Noon
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