Roman, The funny thing here is that, under normal conditions, I know to look to see if the word wraps to the next line, even if there isn't any punctuation to indicate that. I think what threw me this time was that tej is a word and tej z południa seemed like a perfectly reasonable phrase (not that I knew what it meant, of course). That left my odd word before it. It will serve to remind me for quite some time, I'm sure. This was an interesting record in another way too. It is the first one that explained in the legalese part that the father and one witness were able to sign and that the other witness did not know how to write. I've seen the situation before but not with the full explanation. Thanks, Michele On 2/20/2011 3:38 PM, Roman wrote: > Michele, > > You have the answer already. The expression, as indicated by Joe, is: > > " ... o godzinie w pół do pią-tej z południa ..." > > Of course, many old documents fail to insert a hyphen at the end of the > line to indicate a word break. Other church records I have seen use a > colon or comma at the end of the line. Additionally, one often will see > a colon used for an abbreviation where we would normally insert a > period. Here, the scribe did not use any marker. > > Even English people have special time expressions. When is "tea time"? > > Roman > > On 2/20/2011 1:19 PM, Michele wrote: >> I have looked everywhere I can think of to try to figure out what this >> time expression actually is and what it means. I read it as "o godzinie >> w połdopią , tej z południa". Does anyone know what the word that looks >> like połdopią is? And what does "tej z południa" mean? This from noon? I >> would really appreciate some help on this one. I've posted the image at >> the link below. This phrase starts near the end of the second line. >> >> https://picasaweb.google.com/mgardenerm/KarolLeonardKonarskiBaptism?authkey=Gv1sRgCOSAsMvZjJyF1wE#5575816574360571026 >> >> Thanks, >> >> Michele > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at [email protected] > ---------------------------------- > Discussion of Polish food, culture, and customs are welcome on the list as long as the discussion stays pertinent to the topic of this list: researching our Polish roots. > ---------------------------------- > Browse the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=poland-roots > Search the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?aop=1 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message