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[Bill Le May]

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> It was the same for me in the '50s in Minnesota.  Dubuque is
> on the River, right?  It may or may not have shifted to
> "till" in the past 50 years, with the general sweep of
> Midland speech across Iowa and beyond.  What do you hear
> these days?  (And btw, we used "to" both with and without the
> noun, like you.)

Dubuque is indeed on the Mississippi, at the corner of Wisconsin and
Illinois.

I mostly hear "ten to". I haven't heard "ten of" in quite a while.

I also used to hear radio personalities (that's giving them all the best of
it) waggishly saying "It's 52 minutes before the hour."

Bill Le May

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