{"id":29191,"date":"2025-11-18T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=29191"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:57:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T22:57:40","slug":"why-do-the-clocks-in-classrooms-have-four-as-iiii-and-not-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2025\/11\/18\/why-do-the-clocks-in-classrooms-have-four-as-iiii-and-not-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do the clocks in classrooms have four as IIII and not IV?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AW111825-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AW111825-1.jpg\" alt=\"Why do the clocks in classrooms have four as IIII and not IV?\" class=\"wp-image-29188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AW111825-1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AW111825-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AW111825-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AW111825-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Why do the clocks in classrooms have four as IIII and not IV?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Actual Romans used both, sometimes in the same document. Consistent spelling and numbering are a relatively recent phenomenon. And clockmakers are making art, so they have options on how to display things. I think it looks cool and old old-timey. Check out my friend the Oxford Classical Dictionary for a discussion: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-roman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bit.ly\/bc-roman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actual Romans used both, sometimes in the same document. Consistent spelling and numbering are a relatively recent phenomenon. And clockmakers are making art, so they have options on how to display things. I think it looks cool and old old-timey. Check out my friend the Oxford Classical Dictionary for a discussion: bit.ly\/bc-roman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29209,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29191\/revisions\/29209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}