I'd never really thought about it before, but I wouldn't expect this to be the origins of 'o'clock'.
. As our knowledge about language keeps ticking over, we figured that we’d take a hot minute to really look into how we talk aboutBefore researching this,.I considered what I thought it could mean or where it came from. As a northerner, my first instinct was to think that it was a derivation of on’t’clock, It’s a shortened form of the now obsolete phrase ‘of the clock’, from the Middle English ‘of the clokke’.
“For a time, a rival phrase “a clock” was also used, though this seems to have died out in the 19th century, with o’clock becoming the preferred contraction.”So, with that in mind, it’s worth noting that ’o’clock wasn’t the only phrase going through some changes back then.explained that during this period, the phrase ‘Jack-o’-lantern’ started to popularise. This name came from ‘Jack of the lantern’,.
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