![]() ![]() If you're speaking to an American, use these forms. With that fairly simple set of rules, here's how we'd read those times: Minute 0 is not pronounced, but in that case, we say " o'clock". So, for minutes 10-59, the number is spoken normally ("ten", "fifty-nine", etc.) but for minutes 1-9, the number is spoken as "oh-one", "oh-nine", etc. Here's the perspective of a native West Coast American speaker - which I believe is, in this case, the same as the General American perspective.Īll times, regardless of where you're reading them, are spoken as " ", where is always spoken as a two-digit number. ![]() Someone reading a digital clock will likely tell you the reading, but with analogue clocks, conversationally, you are likely to get these more vague, conversational answers. "Quarter to" and "quarter past" feel like their own times. We drop the "a" from "It's a quarter to ten." "It's twenty-six to ten." would be very rare to hear, much more likely to be exact for that and say "It's nine thirty-four." 1328-1329: "nearly half past"ġ330: "It's half past one on the dot." "It's half one exactly."Ġ934: "It's nearly twenty five to (ten)."Īnything other than the 5 minute increments of 25,20,15,10,5 feel strange to say. Unless it's a circumstance where the listener needs the exact time, we're likely to approximate to the nearest 5 minutes.ġ326, 1327: "about twenty five past". If people are asking because they need to catch a train at a particular time, or waiting for a meeting to start, the assumption is they're asking about the minutes, rather than the hour.ġ326: "It's just gone twenty-five past (one)." If the hour can be inferred, it's often dropped. As a native Londoner, here is what I am most likely to say (and hear) at those times (given below in 24 hour format):ġ302: "Two minutes past one." "It's just gone one." ![]()
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