Mark,
I am not sure if you were just teasing us, but this is actually a
perfectly correct use of "milli".
You are thinking about the unit prefixes (kilo, mega, and milli,
micro,...).
Here, it's a separate root "milli" from Latin "mille" - thousand.
Cf. Permille: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_mille
Actually, according to M.-W., the word even exists in English:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mille
It is noteworthy that the word "mile" (distance unit) also comes from
"mille". In Rome, it was "thousand paces".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile#Historical_miles
And I probably don't need to translate "mil pesos". ;-)
Cheers,
Igor
Mark Roberts Wed, 26 Oct 2016 05:11:28 -0700 wrote:
Jostein wrote:
For a side order of tidbits, a millipede needs to have at least 252 body
segments to have a thousand legs.
:-)
Well technically, a creature with 1000 legs would be a kilopede,
wouldn't it?
:-)
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