Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 08:49:42 +0100

From: Jean LEDU ledu[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CASSIS-GW.UNIV-BREST.FR

Subject: Re: Half Past the Hour



As a complete outsider - being a Frenchman - I HAVE

discovered Twenty after three and twenty of three

in Stephen King's novel.What is the actual US norm?

Do twenty past and twenty to sound English to an American

ear.

Jean Le Du, Un. of Brest, France