Britpick Question

[amberfocus]

How do you say 1:30?  Is it half one or half two?  Thanks!

Comments

[bananasandroses.livejournal.com]

Half one, for me.

[lostwolfchats.livejournal.com]

half one

(half 2 would be 2.30) or half past

[rebeccaclark.livejournal.com]

Why not be unambiguous? "Half past one" is a perfectly English thing to say.

[nagini16.livejournal.com]

half past one for me

[electrictoes.livejournal.com]

Half one :D

[bastetseye.livejournal.com]

I just say one thirty, it sounds awkward to say half one, but that's just me.

[drtyler.livejournal.com]

Thank you for asking this! I have been wanting to know this for years.

[alizin1derland.livejournal.com]

1:30 = half one or half-past one
I think your getting half two from thinking half an hour to two ? You'd use that kind of thinking for say 1:40 would usually be stated twenty to two but 1:20 would be twenty past one.

Did any of that make sense outside my own head???

[alizin1derland.livejournal.com]

Edit: If jonathon was doing something sciencey i.e "experiment commenced at..." you probably use the more precise 1:30 pm or military style time