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Is 24/7 a common idiom throughout the world?
(lemmy.world)
in Korea businesses say 25 hours to mean 24/7
I've heard that term used a few, infrequent times here in the US, as well. Usually from people my parent's age.
that's wild, what region?
I have actually never heard anyone say it this way specifically where I grew up... so technically the answer is "no"?
I tried to dug around and found a Reddit post saying this:
"The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines the term as "twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week; constantly". It lists its first reference to 24/7 to be from a 1983 story in the US magazine Sports Illustrated in which Louisiana State University player Jerry Reynolds describes his jump shot in just such a way: 24-7-365."
So this might be a fairly new idiom? Which would explain why it's not really a thing in a lot of cultures... but I assume they have their ways of referring to this.
number of hours and days are the same
Ok akktually Japan has a rather interesting 30-hour day thing in the context of businesses... but jokes aside, the 24-hour, 7-day week system is indeed quite universal
Where did you grow up?
East Asia; again, never heard anyone refer to "24/7" specifically (ok maybe at more hipster places that try to imitate American businesses?)... There might be a similar idiom for it but I genuinely couldn't think of any off the top of my head
In Polish we use "24 godziny na dobę" which means 24 hours per day
"Éjjel-nappal, a hét minden napján!"
No, I guess 24/7 is not ubiquitous.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2024
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