Bug in "Announce the time" on half hour

I have the Clock configure to announce the time on the quarter hour (using Trinoids).
Most of the announcements are fine however it regularly announces the half hour as "three" rather than "thirty".
Curiously it happens on almost all, but not on every instance. I've noticed this in 10.5.2 as well which is when I enabled this so not sure about earlier versions.

Oh and I also use 24 hour clock.

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