I hate when people make a reference to AM or PM when talking about time and then throw in a reference to either morning, evening or night. It’s a redundancy. And a particularly annoying one.
This morning on the ABC it was used over and over again. Like nails on a chalkboard. Warren Boland was giving a teaser to an upcoming segment about businesses opening their doors at 6.30am during winter – convenience stores I think. And in the space of 2 minutes must have referred to “6.30AM in the morning” about 12 times. It drove me to distraction. And now, I’m sharing my rant with you.
If you are going to refer to the time, and add the AM/PM suffix – do not tell me what part of the day that is in. It insults my intelligence. And yours.
That is all.
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It is one of my pet hates too. We prefer 24hr time.
What I hate is people writing AD after the date. As if there was any confusion…
The briefing told us all to do it a few years back. As a way of witnessing. Dumb.
I hate that too. But I kind of understand where they’re coming from because I also hate BCE.