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Better time or better timingInterest forums / Speaking in Tongues | ||
Hi, should I say "1400 hours is a better time" or "1400 hours is a better timing" ? Thanks | ||
If you mean 1400 hours = 2 PM, as in "1400 would be a better time to meet" then you want "time". I can't think of any context in which you would use "timing" with the indefinite article. Perhaps abbied can. | 1 | |
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"Timing" can also mean (Merriam Webster) Regarding the sense of "to measure how long it takes for something to happen or for someone to do something"-- | 3 | |
Non-Americans will need to be told, and some Americans will need to be reminded, that "These are the times that try men's souls" was the first line of The Crisis #1, the first of a series of pamphlets by the revolutionary agitator-propagandist Thomas Paine. The first one came out during the darkest days of the American Revolutionary War. | 4 | |
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