diff --git a/internal/persona/persona.go b/internal/persona/persona.go
index d3928bb..b15e7f9 100644
--- a/internal/persona/persona.go
+++ b/internal/persona/persona.go
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/lexicon"
 )
 
 // Facts — the optional, deployment-specific half of the block. All fields may
@@ -34,12 +36,10 @@ type Facts struct {
 	Tools    bool // at least one shell act is on the allowlist
 }
 
-var ruWeekdays = [...]string{"воскресенье", "понедельник", "вторник", "среда", "четверг", "пятница", "суббота"}
-
-var ruMonths = [...]string{
-	"января", "февраля", "марта", "апреля", "мая", "июня",
-	"июля", "августа", "сентября", "октября", "ноября", "декабря",
-}
+// The weekday and month names are closed classes and live in internal/lexicon,
+// which indexes weekdays from Sunday the way time.Weekday does and months from
+// one. This file used to carry its own copies, making four copies of the twelve
+// months in the tree after cmd/mavend/ruwords.go gave up its own (Vikunja #525).
 
 // Block renders the context block for one turn. Russian even in front of the
 // English prompts: the rules it states are Russian grammar (ты/тебя, feminine
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ func (f Facts) Block(now time.Time) string {
 	}
 
 	b.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("Сейчас: %s, %d %s %d, %02d:%02d (местное время).\n",
-		ruWeekdays[int(now.Weekday())], now.Day(), ruMonths[int(now.Month())-1], now.Year(),
+		lexicon.Weekday(int(now.Weekday())), now.Day(), lexicon.MonthGenitive(int(now.Month())), now.Year(),
 		now.Hour(), now.Minute()))
 
 	b.WriteString("Умеешь: " + strings.Join(f.can(), "; ") +
diff --git a/internal/say/summary.go b/internal/say/summary.go
index 0ae0cfa..bc2b575 100644
--- a/internal/say/summary.go
+++ b/internal/say/summary.go
@@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ func LoadSummaries(src rand.Source) (*Summaries, error) {
 		{PlanUncertain, "{line}"},
 		{TasksFirst, "{items}"}, {TasksCandidates, "{items}"},
 		{StallOverdue, "{n}"}, {StallOverdue, "{word}"},
-		{StallSitting, "{n}"}, {StallSitting, "{days}"},
+		{StallSitting, "{n}"}, {StallSitting, "{word}"},
+		{StallSitting, "{days}"}, {StallSitting, "{dayword}"},
 		{StallUnconfirmed, "{n}"}, {StallUnconfirmed, "{word}"},
 		{ReasonOverdueDays, "{n}"}, {ReasonOverdueDays, "{word}"},
 		{ReasonInDays, "{n}"}, {ReasonInDays, "{word}"},
diff --git a/internal/ttsnorm/ttsnorm.go b/internal/ttsnorm/ttsnorm.go
index 5fb37a1..ab97c7e 100644
--- a/internal/ttsnorm/ttsnorm.go
+++ b/internal/ttsnorm/ttsnorm.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/lexicon"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/say"
 )
 
 // The month names are a closed class and live in internal/lexicon, 1-indexed,
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ func Speakable(s string) string {
 	})
 	s = reTime.ReplaceAllStringFunc(s, func(m string) string {
 		p := reTime.FindStringSubmatch(m)
-		return p[1] + " часов " + p[2] + " минут"
+		return spokenTime(mustInt(p[1]), mustInt(p[2]))
 	})
 	s = reDots.ReplaceAllStringFunc(s, func(m string) string {
 		return strings.Join(strings.Split(m, "."), " точка ")
@@ -46,6 +47,20 @@ func Speakable(s string) string {
 	return Pronounce(s)
 }
 
+// spokenTime reads a clock time the way it is said rather than the way it is
+// written. Two things the written form gets wrong out loud. The noun after a
+// numeral inflects, so 21:00 is "час" and 22:00 is "часа", where the old
+// rewrite said "часов" for every hour and "минут" for every minute. And a
+// leading zero is punctuation, not a word: 14:00 is "14 часов" and 9:05 is
+// "9 часов 5 минут", never "00 минут" or "05 минут".
+func spokenTime(h, m int) string {
+	out := strconv.Itoa(h) + " " + say.CountWord(h, "час", "часа", "часов")
+	if m == 0 {
+		return out
+	}
+	return out + " " + strconv.Itoa(m) + " " + say.CountWord(m, "минута", "минуты", "минут")
+}
+
 func spokenDate(dd, mm, yyyy string) string {
 	mi, _ := strconv.Atoi(mm)
 	if mi < 1 || mi > 12 {
diff --git a/internal/ttsnorm/ttsnorm_test.go b/internal/ttsnorm/ttsnorm_test.go
index 1d4206a..3d938ad 100644
--- a/internal/ttsnorm/ttsnorm_test.go
+++ b/internal/ttsnorm/ttsnorm_test.go
@@ -6,8 +6,11 @@ func TestSpeakable(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct{ in, want string }{
 		{"напомню 10.07.2026", "напомню 10 июля 2026"},
 		{"срок 01.01", "срок 1 января"},
-		{"встреча в 14:00", "встреча в 14 часов 00 минут"},
-		{"в 9:05 подъём", "в 9 часов 05 минут подъём"},
+		{"встреча в 14:00", "встреча в 14 часов"},
+		{"в 9:05 подъём", "в 9 часов 5 минут подъём"},
+		{"в 21:00 отбой", "в 21 час отбой"},
+		{"в 22:02 отбой", "в 22 часа 2 минуты отбой"},
+		{"в 1:01 проснулся", "в 1 час 1 минута проснулся"},
 		{"это 3.2.1 версия", "это 3 точка 2 точка 1 версия"},
 		{"без чисел", "без чисел"},
 	}