Lady Laura Nov 24
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Danish: Nine and half five twenty

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How is that supposed to work?
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nine plus halfway (from four) to five times twenty

twenty used to be a very common number in trade, it was called "en snes"

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@bsdphk @ditol @cmconseils The half thing is like the system of telling the time in Germany and some parts of rural Scotland, where “half five” for example means 4:30 rather than 5:30.
Nov 24 at 12:26pmWeb
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Thanks, now it starts making sense at least. :)

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Btw., it's not only German and Scots: it's the same in Ukrainian and Russian (and probably other Slavic languages, but I don't speak them, so no way to tell certainly).

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