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Do You Know What “A.M.” and “P.M.” Actually Stand For?

Author: Archit Tripathi / Source: did you know?

We use countless abbreviations on a daily basis, most of them without even thinking about it. Everyone knows that “A/C” stands for “air conditioning” and “TV” stands for “television,” but there are a lot of other common abbreviations that people use every day without actually knowing what they stand for.

Among the most commonly misunderstood abbreviations are “a.m.” and “p.m.” Americans, in particular, use these all the time since they favor the 12-hour convention of telling time (as opposed to 24-hour a.k.a. “military” time). But if you were to ask a random person on the street what each of those abbreviations meant, you’d…

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