OT 'it's sick, it's twisted it has to go on UKRM'

Stick with it.

 

Bugger, I checked it as well. Must have knocked the q off the end. Try
this.

 

And also

http://www.break.com/index/how-to-untangle-mp3-headphones.html

 

*snort*

she should be euthanized for using a roger whittaker song.

 

Half the humour is in the comments; people actually took that
seriously!

 

Sucking his keyboard for inspiration, Mr Nice typed:

Fucking hilarious. I'll watch it with the sound on later (relatives in the
room at the mo).

Floss the cat - lovely.

 

Coz then they'd have to add up.

My Gran used to say "Five and twenty" instead of "Twenty-five" and she
wasn't a septic, although she did come from Brighton..


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Germanic languages, surely?

 

At a guess, the Dutch.

 

Massively unlikely IMHO [1] as I recall 3 [2] out of 4 of my
grandparents doing the same thing, and they all came from a long line in
Kent.
[1]Assuming noone is going to come up with an Amsterdam to Thanet
migration theory.
[2] I don't really recall the fourth one saying much at all.

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Same with my gran, she always used terms like "five and twenty past"
when telling the time and I doubt she left Kent more than a few times in
her life (discounting blue-rinse day-trips to Eastbourne). I'd strong
suspect a south-east dialect connection, possibly going back as far as
pre Norman invasion. But IANALinguist.

 

Well that's not dutch, as they would say 5 before half [the next full hour].

But the 5 and 20 is their thing, so whomever suggested languages of
germanic origin was probably correct imho.

 

Amazing innit, what is a small regional foible in the way we speak ends
up influencing the thinking of half of Europe. Somebody keep the
brummies away from France.

 

Too late - aou'rite?
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I've no idea, but I bet that way is older than "our" way.


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They do that in Sweden too. Half 7 is half an hour BEFORE 7 and it will not
stick in my head. I even missed the ferry back home one year because I had
it calculated arse about face.


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Hence why I suggested the pre-Norman (ie. Saxon / Germanic) dialect
influence elsewhere in the post.

 

German the same. I always though Ye Olde Engliff counting was based on
Kraut. Those 50p peice with pfirzig on them was an indicator.

 

My Gran, from Lahndan way somewhere, also always used that expression.

As Higgins says, it's a normal way of using numbers in most germanic
languages, of which English is a part-example. Think also of the
nursery rhyme "four and twenty blackbirds".

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Well there is that, but what about four and twenty blackbirds ?

My grandmother always used to say it, last I heard, Bolton has never
been conquered by the krauts