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[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

"wee small hours" gets 404,000 google hits.

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