Is it AM or PM at your time of reading this?

Is it AM or PM at your time of reading this?

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Is it AM or PM at your time of reading this?

Q: My child got back a spelling test in which she was marked wrong for writing “ante meridiem” as the full name of the abbreviation “AM.” The teacher’s spelling list had it as “antemeridian.” Is this some variant I’m unaware of?

A: Your child’s paper should not have been marked wrong.

In fact, “ante meridiem” and “antemeridian” are two different terms. Neither of them is seen much, though, since the first is rarely written out and the second is rarely used at all.

The two-word “ante meridiem” is the term that’s abbreviated as “AM” or “a.m.” Like its counterpart, “post meridiem,” it’s seldom written out.

The Oxford English Dictionary classifies “ante meridiem” as an adverb meaning “before midday; applied to the hours between midnight and the following noon.”

The Grammarphobia Blog: Ante meridiem or antemeridian?
 

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Here in the Black Forest in Germany it is AM now.
Oh, my goodness! My ancestors were from the Palatine.

Are the leaves on the trees changing color where you are?
 
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Oh, my goodness! My ancestors were from the Palatine.

Are the leaves on the trees changing color where you are?

Yes they are!
And a bit prematurely - because of the very hot summer without enough rain.

The larch trees are still green.
I always like to watch them becoming golden in autumn. :)
 
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Yes they are!
And a bit prematurely - because of the very hot summer without enough rain.

The larch trees are still green.
I always like to watch them becoming golden in autumn. :)

That sounds wonderful, except the weather.

My one set of German ancestors were from Knittlingen. I don't know where the Dunkelbergers were from.

Its only 4:35 AM here
 
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Why grave-yard?
If you're not familiar with the term it means working during the night from 11 pm to 7 am. I've always liked the night shift.

It's now 4:35 am. Time for lunch. Chicken sandwich on nut & grain bread with havarti cheese.
 
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Knittlingen I know quite well!
It is the home of Dr. Faust.
Goethe has written a famous drama about his life.
Yes, I read that fact somewhere.

My brother was born in Stuttgart in 1950. There are towns with German names scattered about the U. S. It seems weird that they not are pronounced in German. And, of course, German surnames have Americanized pronunciations. But then our English doesn't sound British either.

I know very little German, but when I heard Wayne Newton sing Danke Schoen it drove me nuts!
 
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Thank you for the link. It's fascinating! And the political upheaval probably explains why so many Germans came to midwest America. My Zeigers arrived in the mid-1800s.

"In the decade from 1845 to 1855, more than a million Germans fled to the United States to escape economic hardship. They also sought to escape the political unrest caused by riots, rebellion and eventually a revolution in 1848."

I would think the ocean voyage was difficult at that time. And I wonder about the expense.

Johannes Jakob(name changed to John) bought forty acres of land in December 1850. So I'm not sure when he emigrated.

After 8:00 PM now.
 
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Tonight I found this on my dad's side:

Schoharie County, NY in 1711
Johannes Petrus Zeh (See)
BIRTH 1655 • Bayern, Germany

married 1679 in Bayern

Anna Magadelena Von Tschudi
BIRTH 1665
Oppenheim, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
(Her parents were from Switzerland)

Johannes Petrus Zeh (See)
DEATH 7 JUL 1750 • Schoharie, Schoharie, New York, United States

Anna Magadelena Von Tschudi
DEATH 7 JUL 1750 • Schoharie, Schoharie, New York, United States

I wonder if husband and wife were killed!

I always forget that my father had some German ancestors because they changed their surnames to English.

Zeh became See and Vollenweider became Goodpasture.

 
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Thank you for the link. It's fascinating! And the political upheaval probably explains why so many Germans came to midwest America. My Zeigers arrived in the mid-1800s.

"In the decade from 1845 to 1855, more than a million Germans fled to the United States to escape economic hardship. They also sought to escape the political unrest caused by riots, rebellion and eventually a revolution in 1848."

That's right!
Especially the Democratic Revolution in 1848/48 that unfortunately failed brought many German immigrants to the US.
 
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