{"id":5660,"date":"2022-02-28T03:50:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T17:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2022-02-28T05:57:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T19:57:33","slug":"why-do-we-say-oclock-when-telling-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2dpoint.net\/why-do-we-say-oclock-when-telling-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we say O’Clock when telling time?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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  1. The modern-day system of using a 60-minute, 60-second clock dates back to 2000 BC.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. However, it continued to evolve, and the first recorded clock was built around the year 996.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. It took another 300+ years for the timepieces to become mainstream.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. So, for a long time, the clocks co-existed with various other time measuring means such as\u00a0<\/span>sundials<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>water clocks<\/span><\/a>, candle clocks, and hourglasses.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Around the 14th century, to distinguish that one was referring to a clock’s time (and not sundial or water clock, etc.), one would say, “It is four of the clock.”<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Of the clock<\/i><\/b> later got slurred down to o\u2019clock<\/i><\/b>.<\/li>\n
  7. In written English, it was common to contract the words and replace the missing words\/letters with an apostrophe.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. E.g.,\u00a0<\/span>Don’t<\/span><\/em>\u00a0is a contraction for Do not; You’ll is a contraction for You will.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. So, by the 16th or 17th century, ‘<\/span>of the clock’<\/span><\/em> contracted and ‘four of the clock’ became ‘four o’clock’.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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