"A quarter past..." is this common in America?
I have been seeing this a lot while going through different online resources and wasn't sure what to make of it, until La Liseuse (the user, not the painting) explained to me that according to some dictionaries, this was the American way of saying "quarter past" as in "quarter past six", for example (the British version has no article). I just want to check: do Americans really say this?
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A quarter past.....................very common in the USA.
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Thank you, Ons and Faith. What would be you preferred way of saying 6.15, then? Six fifteen?
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No its not.
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As an American, sounds strange. But not nearly as strange as hearing a quarter OF...Northeasterners, am I right?
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Thank you for your comments, everyone.
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