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fph
18 days ago
Weird that we chose these numbers because they have many divisors, and yet no one ever says "it's a third past 10", only "half past" and "a quarter past".
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perilunar
17 days ago
Be the change you want to see: start using ‘a third past’ instead of ‘twenty past’ and see what happens.
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prollings
18 days ago
Where I am from it is common to use "20 to" and "20 past" too.
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