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From: ehramm@dk3uz.hanse.de (Edmund H. Ramm)
Subject: Re: Arabic numbering system
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Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 19:30:05 GMT
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mpk@eniac.demon.co.uk (Mike Knell) writes:

>In article <4516t4$lcp@lorne.stir.ac.uk>,
>I. Stirling <is06@stirling.ac.uk> wrote:
>>Glynis Baguley (gmb@natcorp.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
>>: In article <5vDa54Xhf$B@tiger.toppoint.de> achim@tiger.toppoint.de (Achim Stenzel) writes:
>>: > Exactly. What Harlan referred to, must have been Irish English,  
>>: > where it took me some missed appointments to learn that "half  
>>: > six" is simple plain BE "half past six".
>>: Not exclusively Irish. `Half six' to mean `half past six' is common
>>: where I come from (the North West of England).
>>And scotland.

>And the Midlands.

>And most of the rest of the UK, but maybe those shandy-drinking poofters 
>in the Home Counties don't recognise it. Any shandy-drinking poofters
>from the Home Counties care to confirm/deny this? (That's whether half
>six == half past six, not whether they're shandy drinking poofters or
>not)

   Not exactly, but from a part of the world, where shandy is called
'Alsterwasser' or 'Radlermass' or 'Potsdamer', depending on where you are in
this country. Here half six (halb sechs) means half past five. In some parts
they also have the equivalent of 'quarter six' and 'three quarters' six,
meaning quarter past five and quarter to six, respectively. Does this make
us poofters, too?

   Rgds, Eddi
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