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On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:26:43 +0100, duncan smith <buzzard@invalid.invalid>
declaimed the following:


>The media have their own quirks when it comes to English. The BBC
>regularly use "top of" / "bottom of" in the sense of "start of" / "end
>of", but I don't know any British people who would (currently) use that
>in conversation. (This only started a few years ago, and the first time
>I heard it I had to work out what it meant from context.)
>

	That usage I think is ancient... I'm sure I've heard it back when there
was a reasonable BBC World Service (along with VOA, Radio Netherlands, and
etc. running on Short Wave"...

	Top of the Hour...
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