I dunno where it comes from, but when telling the time, my mum says "it's a five and twenty to / past....(the hour)" instead of simply twenty five to / past.... whatever the hour is.
Apparently there's even weirder stuff going on in Catalonia with time keeping, something along the lines of 1415h being "quarter of three" etc., i.e. a quarter of the third hour has elapsed.
I dunno where it comes from, but when telling the time, my mum says "it's a five and twenty to / past....(the hour)" instead of simply twenty five to / past.... whatever the hour is.
She only does it for 25.
Riddle me that. Does anyone else's mum do that?