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Time and dates

Twenty-five sentences about clocks and calendars — starting with the half hour that isn't where English speakers think it is.

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Two things on this page trip up nearly everybody: the half hour, and the fact that Serbian counts two, three and four differently from five and above. Both come up in the first few sentences.

The one that makes people miss buses

Pola šest. — that's half past five, not half past six. Serbian counts toward the hour that's coming, English counts from the one that's gone.

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