Oops. Bill
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Vlietstra [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 13:35 To: [email protected]; 'U.S. Metric Association' Subject: RE: [USMA:42861] Re: Hot and dry Bill, I posed the original question. :-) Martin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Potts Sent: 03 February 2009 20:16 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:42861] Re: Hot and dry Martin: When did you change your name to Bill? =[{:o)> Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Vlietstra Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:01 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:42859] Re: Hot and dry But I am a non-smoker. Also, if I did volunteer to buy a cigar, it would be the best - from Cuba, but that might cause a spot of bother with Uncle Sam :-) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 03 February 2009 18:39 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:42857] Re: Hot and dry Bill, I did post my correction *before* your correction of my error. Do I get my cigar? I'm uncertain about the spellings meridiem and meridian? Is the former Latin and Oxford English, and the latter modern American English? Gene. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 09:14:21 -0800 >From: "Bill Potts" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [USMA:42853] Re: Hot and dry >To: <[email protected]>, "'U.S. Metric Association'" <[email protected]> > >Gene: > >Close, but no cigar: am is ante (not anti) meridiem and pm is post meridiem. > >Ante means before. Anti means against. Compare with antebellum, which is >used to identify the era prior to the Civil War, or with ante-natal, which >is the non-American-English equivalent of prenatal. > >Bill >________________________________ >Bill Potts, FBCS >WFP Consulting >1848 Hidden Hills Drive >Roseville, CA 95661-5804 >Phone: 916 773-3865 (preferred) >Cell: 916 302-7176 >Excellence matters > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >Of [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 08:53 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:42853] Re: Hot and dry > > >am is "anti meridian" (before crossing of overhead sun). > >pm is "post meridian" (after crossing of overhead sun). > >That is the meaning of am and pm; originating with early astronomers I >suppose. > >Gene. > >---- Original message ---- >>Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 21:24:15 -0000 >>From: "Martin Vlietstra" <[email protected]> >>Subject: [USMA:42840] Re: Hot and dry >>To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> >>... >> >> BTW, how many people know how we got "am" and "pm" >> (without looking it up) >
