wee hours of the ....

[Laurence Horn]

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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