Comment on Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”?

KpntAutismus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That “oh” does not stand for “o’clock”, it stands for zero. If you said “six-o-fifteen” (or any time without the leading zero for minutes) you’d be saying it wrong.

  In English we can often say “oh” for zero, when it is part of a string of numbers. So when giving telephone numbers or addresses, for example, in addition to the time.

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  • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We also don’t say the “oh” for zero the same way as the “o” in “o’clock” (the former rhymes with “owe” and the latter is a schwa).

    Um I certainly as fuck do, as does everyone else in my country. What the fuck other way are you going to pronounce 'O'?

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    • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Like a schwa, as I said.

      Which country is it where that “o” is never reduced?

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      • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Australia.

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• CalamityBalls@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In some situations, we use "o" for the number 0. Been hunting around for a reason but I think it's just an abbreviation of zero.

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• Whelks_chance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Which is turn stands for “of the clock”

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• CtrlOpenAppleReset@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  German class taught me fünf nach sechs.
  Or if you want a real nighrmare
  6:35
  fünf nach halb vor 7
  5 past half an hour to 7... It's in my textbook people look at me funny if I use it.
  British English I still haven't figured out if half 7 is 6:30 or 7:30. Halb 7 in German is 6:30
  Living in Germany coming from north America doing a lot of work with England I miss a lot of meetings that are at 17:30... Either I screw up the 12 hr change and can't remember if the said 7 or 17 and then where the half hour falls before or after.

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