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Re: Even *MORE* Scandinavia...

Raven
SubjectRe: Even *MORE* Scandinavian linguistics; was: Republicanism still an offence in England?
FromRaven
Date2002-05-16 23:35 (2002-05-16 23:35)
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FollowupsHenriette Frans (11h & 36m)
Troels Forchhammer (17h & 10m)

"Speaking Clock" <ext2350FOOTWEAR@pobox.com>skrev i en meddelelse news:abui29$l9fam$1@ID-93488.news.dfncis.de...

Ooh, that's tricky. So is "fems" five score? It reminds me of the way Germans tell the time. "Halb vier" (half to four) they say, for half past three. It makes catching trains interesting if you're a foreigner!

"Fems" for "a hundred" is just my own little joke. Danish for five score is "hundrede". But in Scandinavia we also say "halv fire" for "half past three". I don't know if my memory is faulty, or it *is* possible to say "half four" in English as "half past three".

Rabe.

Henriette Frans (11h & 36m)
Troels Forchhammer (17h & 10m)