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Author	sensors
Comment	Genuine question here, so please don't take this as a dig... Why do you say "2am in the morning", when the "am" already denotes the time of day? I've seen this a lot more recently and as someone interested in linguistic origins I'm trying to understand how this came to be more common.
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Created	Mon 11th Dec 2023 9:54am
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Genuine question here, so please don't take this as a dig...

Why do you say "2am in the morning", when the "am" already denotes the time of day?

I've seen this a lot more recently and as someone interested in linguistic origins I'm trying to understand how this came to be more common.