Ate = In Britain, this word has been traditionally pronounced “et.” Yep, just two letters. You'd think ate was already short enough. “I'm full, I et a huge lunch.” This may be considered old fashioned though as it's reported younger people in the U.K. are now pronouncing the word as spelled, a-t-e.
ET stands for Eastern Time. It's a catch-all term that refers to EST or EDT, whichever currently applies. If you're in an area that observes Daylight Saving Time and you're not sure whether to use EDT or EST, it's always safe to use ET. ET refers to EST when EST is the local time and EDT when EDT is the local time.
Eastern Time is simply used to tell the local time in areas that observe both Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and Eastern Standard Time (EST). If someone asks for what time it is in ET, they're asking what time is it in the time zones that observe EST or EDT.
The "Eastern Standard Time" is one of the best known time zones worldwide, because the largest cities of the Canadian and the US-American East Coast are located here. It is UTC-5, which is 5 hours behind the Universal Time Coordinated, which starts in Greenwich.
It's common in British English. I remember being corrected in junior school (age 8) to say ATE instead of ET, and thinking it was an overcorrection, like saying Wed-nes-day. I'm from Florida (pronounced Flah-rih-dah) and we always say 'et'. As in: "you're too late; we done et", or "we et before we came over".
The Hebrew language has unique syntax, and it can be quite confusing. One of the words that's used very frequently in Hebrew sentences is אֶת (et), a word that has no equivalent in English. It's a preposition used to introduce a direct object.
The terminology around eating in the UK is still confusing. For some "lunch" is "dinner" and vice versa. From the Roman times to the Middle Ages everyone ate in the middle of the day, but it was called dinner and was the main meal of the day. Lunch as we know it didn't exist - not even the word.
dinner simply refers to the main meal of the day. Taken in daylight so you could see what you were doing. as indoor lighting became more prevalent, the posh element slowly moved dinner towards later in the day enabling more socialising. And invented afternoon tea to provide a top up.
Supper is a significantly more popular term in the south. At least 10% of people living in Essex, Gloucestershire, East Anglia, South Wales, Oxfordshire, Devon and East Sussex say supper instead of dinner or tea. Edinburgh was the only place outside of the south of England that did the same.
The silent "t" in "et" is due to early French grammarians, who romanticized the Latin language, in which the word for "and" is "et"; they decided to throw an extra silent "t" in the spelling of the French word which is unrelated to the "t" in e.g. "était" which really was still being pronounced at the time.
et and est are not really homophones because they sound slightly different. However, it can be easy to confuse them in writing. Again, their grammatical function should be examined. et is first and foremost a coordination conjunction , i.e. it is used to make the connection between words and ideas: le chien et le chat.
8, eight, ate are all pronounced /eɪt/ and rhyme with bait, Kate, date, fate, hate, late, mate, Nate, rate, wait. Jennifer Tarle from Tarle Speech and Language guides you through a quick pronunciation lesson with quick tips to have you sounding clearer in no time.
Eastern Standard Time (EST) is a standard time zone in use from the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March—when Daylight Saving Time (DST) is not in effect. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is used during the remainder of the year.
Eastern Time Zone (ET) is the time zone for the eastern part of the Americas including the United States, Canada and parts of South America and the Caribbean. ET is five hours behind UTC in winter, which is called Eastern Standard Time (EST).
