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On Oct 11, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> =
wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 16:26:43 +0100, duncan smith =
<buzzard@invalid.invalid>
> declaimed the following:
>=20
>=20
>> 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.)
>>=20
>=20
> 	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"...
>=20
> 	Top of the Hour=85

Of course, musicians have used it for years, as in =93Take it from the =
top.=94

And (with reference to the earlier discussion), just because something =
is specified in the Oxford English Dictionary, doesn=92t mean it is =
universally approved of.  Take the =93Oxford Comma=94 for example.

-Bill