Re: Half Six = 18:30


"Jim Lawton" <usenet1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I was just musing as I drove along tonight, about the English way of saying
>half
> past the hour. When I lived in Finland I had great difficulty convincing
> people
> that in England we say "half six" or "half ten" to mean half past the
> hour. In
> Finland, as in Germany, similar usage always means half before the hour,
> so
> "halb sieben" is 18:30.
>
> Does any English speaking nation not adhere to the BrE way of going on,
> and do
> we know if any other language /does/?
> --
> Jim
> the polymoth

In Canada the vast, vast majority would refer to 18:30 as 6:30. Now and then
people will say "half past six" but I can't say that I've heard anyone apart
from recent immigrants from the UK say "half six" when it comes to the time.

Judy


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