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Originally Posted by StevOK
Usage dictates definition.
Colossus just meant "statue" until the Colossus at Rhodes.
Do you realize that a billion in America and a billion in the UK are different numbers?
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good point. if the question had been: does it annoy anyone else that time in the US runs:
10:00am
11:00am
12:00pm
1:00pm
then i would have to say, yes it does annoy me that everyone thinks noon can be either before or after noon.
there are no 12am or 12pm. there is only 12 noon and 12 midnight.