BBC Spelling Pedantry

[Neil_H]

Ok, own up, who has been emailing the BBC?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/759550...

Mervyn is my favourite:

MervynThePedant said:

That guardian of our language, the BBC, is full of solecisms these days; just one example: 12 pm. There is no such time; "meridiem" as in am ("ante meridiem" means "before noon") and pm ("post meridiem" means "after noon") means midday. The 12th hour is neither before nor after midday. So please, BBC use either midday or noon with midnight the correct term for the other end of the day. This is not being pedantic; in these days of 24-hour days, it is often not readily apparent what time 12 pm might be.
Mervyn, Usk, Monmouthshire

It is readily apparent that it's 12 in the after-fking-noon?

(I have to admit many of the others are fair comment.)

[Ganglandboss]

If someone asks you the time at bang on 12; by the time you've finished your sentence it's post meridiem - if only by a few seconds! Or does meridiem last a whole fking minute?

Who wrote that fking comment? Professor fking Frink?

Edited by Ganglandboss on Thursday 4th September 10:24

[Neil_H]

"in these days of 24-hour days"

Yes not like the old days of 23 hours.