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What does Emma stand for in Ack Emma and Pip Emma?

Question #98972. Asked by Flem-ish.
Last updated Aug 24 2016.

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Ack Emma - is a British slang term for "a.m." as in ante meridian. The phrase derives from a British signalman's letter code, in which Ack stood for A and so on. This is also where the word Ack Ack for anti-aircraft (AA) fire comes from, as well as the origin of the companion term Pip Emma.

link http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/fun/wordplay/weird_words.html

Response last updated by postcards2go on Aug 24 2016.
Aug 28 2008, 2:15 PM
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The letter m. Ack Emma = a.m. (from the Latin ante meridiwm, before midday, morning); Pip Emma = p.m. (from the Latin post meridiem, after midday, afternoon).

link http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/fun/wordplay/weird_words.html

Ack Emma - is a British slang term for "a.m." as in ante meridian. The phrase derives from a British signalman's letter code, in which Ack stood for A and so on. This is also where the word Ack Ack for anti-aircraft (AA) fire comes from, as well as the origin of the companion term Pip Emma (see PG Wodehouse, somewhere).

Response last updated by zorba_scank on Aug 24 2016.
Aug 28 2008, 2:20 PM
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