wee hours of the ....
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Aug 28 16:03:27 UTC 2006
At 11:25 AM -0400 8/28/06, Barnhart wrote:
>Seen on another list:
>
>....proposals that aren't madly cobbled together in wee hours of the
>night, etc. ....
>
>I would expect "wee hours of the morning".
>
It doesn't seem that unheard-of to me. The raw google numbers
(provided with the usual modicum of salt) are:
"wee hours of the morning" 1,100,000
"wee hours of the night" 152,000
"wee hours of the afternoon" 4,950
The last one I'm pretty sure I haven't encountered, but it's
understandable in context.
LH
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