Re: The English/French counting system (WAS: number systems from conlangs)
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 1:35 |
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David Barrow scripsit:
> >Americans don't say "half eight", ever; it's "half past eight".
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> don't Americans say 'after' rather than 'past'
Quarter after, or quarter past; quarter till, or quarter of. But
half past.
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