4AM in the morning.

[sobrique]

Ok, look I know you want to emphasise that it's really early and everything, but do you _have_ to specify a time as "4AM in the morning"?
I mean, AM is Ante Meridiem - quite literally 'before the middle of the day'.
Either or, please. 4 in the morning or 4AM is fine.
4 in the morning in the morning just seems daft.

Incidentally - the Romans used 'Ante-Meridian' literally - 4 AM was 4 hours before noon.

Comments

0400

[(Anonymous)]

English is full of redundancy - who needs vowels anyway?

Re: 0400

[jorune.livejournal.com]

Certainly not the Czechs.

[inbetween-girl.livejournal.com]

I blame Mike Oldfield.

Tautology

[ed-fortune.livejournal.com]

It's almost as annoying as PIN number.

Re: Tautology

[fearmeforiampink]

Ah RAS syndrome.

There are worse examples, like your Personal PIN Number, which is RedundAnt RAS Syndrome

[purp1e-magic.livejournal.com]

Many languages use this form as a stress. Many words can be said double instead of a word like 'very'. Also certain phrases add redundancy as stress. "suwaare" as opposed to "suraar na por ma", "wellu" as opposed to "wellu wellu"

[(Anonymous)]

I have seen worse. You will also find it written as 04:00 am in the morning. For those that like to confuse their 24 and 12 hour clocks as well as adding redundancy.

Elaine