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Gretchen McCulloch
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Any excuse to share one of my favourite etymologies:
The minute is called that because it's the first minute (as in small) part of the hour.
The second is the second minute part.
And yeah, we used to have thirds, a sixtieth of a second, in an era before milliseconds!
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