Re: Time in various languages...

Richard Herring wrote:

> One can probably rigidly define this one: no monoglot native speaker of
> British English would ever use "half ten" to mean anything but 10:30.

And no monoglot native speaker of American English would ever use "half
ten," but if they heard it they would naturally interpret it as "halfway
to ten."

Perhaps as in "We're halfway there."
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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