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Smart Talk SMART TALK By Dr. Parley Speake
TWELVE NOON: At the Institute for the Linguistically impaired, we teach patients to say noon and midnight. The twelve is redundant, and thanks to digital clocks, which erode our concepts of time, we can no longer agree upon what 12 A.M. and 12 P.M. are.
Time was, we said 10 P.M., 11 P.M., 12 P.M., and then 12:01 A.M. But now, digital clocks display 12 A.M. at midnight, and many ovinely accept this as official. Transcend the controversy and just say noon or midnight.
Saying 12 noon and 12 midnight is as silly as saying three A.M. in the morning. Keep it simple. That’s smart talk.
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