Greebo wrote:Just sayin' -- no nitpicking offence intended, my intent was being helpful too. English is very flexible and there's a lot of history in it that can come through. I don't like grammar nazis, but I'm a bit of a hypocrite because seeing English persistently abused makes me squirm.
Well you were the one abusing the English language. When I was growing up in Scotland. O'Clock was generally meant on the hour of.
So 4 o'clock is, where the minute hand was on numeral twelve, and the hour hand was on the numeral four. The colloquial term of o'clock, came into existence in the late 1800's. Quite probably because the popularizing of large centralized clocks, like Big Ben in London. That was still new by 1860. Military time was created around 1917. I believe 16 o'clock to be wrong, not grammatically, but plain wrong. When Big Ben strikes 16 times, in a row. That is the minute hand on the numeral XII, and the hour hand XVI. You will be grammatically, syntactically, and culturally correct. In the Queen's English.
Aite, we be chill now bro?