XPost: alt.language.latin, soc.culture.spanish   
   From: wugi@brol.invalid   
      
   Op 20-9-2024 om 13:16 schreef Helmut Richter:   
   > On Fri, 20 Sep 2024, Ed Cryer wrote:   
   >   
   >> The Spanish palate must have had trouble with "gn"; but not with "gr".   
      
   F. pronostique, Nl. pronostiek.   
      
   >> As to time,  it's English that's unusual here.   
   >>   
   >> ¿Qué hora es?   
   >> Quelle heure est-il?   
   >> Wie viel Uhr ist es?   
   > ... which is different from the others by not using the German word for   
   > hour (Stunde) nor time (Zeit), but the word for clock/watch (Uhr). The   
   > same word is used to tell the time if you are using the 24 hour system (0   
   > Uhr, 0 Uhr 1, ..., 23 Uhr 59).   
   >   
   > In colloquial speech, you would more idiomatically ask "Wie spät ist es?",   
   > (how late is it?) at least in large portions of Germany.   
      
   And in Dutch, "hoe laat is het?".   
   (Flemish dial. "wad uur is 't?")   
      
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