Answer This Random Question

[Opaque]

We need a thread to ask quick random questions you think TNL might know, because if it's inhabitants are correct they know everything. Think specific things that google will probably make more of a pain than it's worth. I'll start:

Today I thought about how you could either say "half an hour" or "a half hour" and wondered if by chance one of them is more acceptable grammatically. Anyone know?

[Timber]

Neither, you should really be saying "one one thousand four hundred and seventeenth of a lunar cycle."

[dave is ok]

I say half an hour

[Josh]

I say both.

[Frogacuda]

If you say "a half-hour" it should be hyphenated like so. Other than that, both are completely grammatically acceptable.

[Josh]

I've been thinking it over. I really only say "half hour" at work when I'm dealing with bands.

[Opaque]

If you say "a half-hour" it should be hyphenated like so. Other than that, both are completely grammatically acceptable.

I did not know this.

[Razor Ramon]

Your mothers, are they really whores?

[Shakey]

In traditional terms: yes. Your mother, however, is going out of her way to redefine the word.

[Razor Ramon]

My mother is redefining "whore" to "saint".