On 13 Apr, 15:56, Sam wrote:
Mary Fisher wrote:
"Sam" wrote in message
Hi Sam,

You're right it's seconds, even on this side of the Atlantic.

Jim



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common use in US-English *language space appears to be:

' - foot , " - inch

and, apparently:

' - minute, " - second

Where do you find *the *" also meaning minutes - AU/UK-English?

A web reference is appreciated.

The only - kind of matching - reference I could find was:

Use the straight single and double quotes ' and " only to denote
minutes, seconds, feet, and inches.

That's from:http://www.poynton.com/notes/typesetting/index.html

and the author is from Canada.

Sam