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billohno@gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 16:20:28 EDT 2011
On 3/31/2011 3:27 PM, Paul Hopfgarten wrote:
> Pet Peeve Time!
>
> M is 1000 (not 1,000,000), so many newspapers and e-mailers get this
> wrong!
>
> MM is 1,000,000 (Hail Caesar!)
>
> Rant mode off.....
Methinks you may be in for plenty of rant-food on this one. I dropped
this rant from my list awhile ago when I had to finally accept that the
M was the abbreviation for the word, "Million." It was a cleansing
experience. And then I ate a Caesar salad.
Bill O'Neill
c. MMXI
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