[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*Way out of topic and just for my own curiosity*:
By the way, is there an English word for 24 hours? In Swedish we have
"dygn", which is not the same thing as "dagar". 1 dygn = 24 h, 1 dag = 1
day, 2 dagar = 2 days, 1 natt = 1 night and so on. In movies made in UK,
Australia, USA etc, they always say things like 48 hours, 72 hours etc,
never things like 43 hours or 77 hours, which make me believe that there
really is no English word for a period of 24 hours. It's easier for
us, we
just say 2 dygn, 3 dygn and so on. We don't have to multiply with
24... =)
Can "days" sometimes mean "24 h" in English? I was not sure, that's why I
put "days" within quotes in my first paragraph above...
Johnny Andersson
Typically in English, "day" is used more generally and approximately
than "24 hours", for which there is no specific English equivalent, as
far as I know (and I'm a native English-language speaker).
So if someone says that a project will be done in two days, and it's now
Tuesday, that would mean it should be done sometime Thursday, not
necessarily exactly 48 hours from the moment in time on Tuesday that I'm
being told that.
But back to your question, I do not think there is any English
equivalent to "24 hours".
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