• Evil_Shrubbery
    17·
    5 days ago

    It was a thousand for millennia. Why should it stop now?
    That’s just English barbarism.

    … the current use was proposed in the late 18th century my the French.

    Proposed in 1793, and adopted in 1795, the prefix comes from the Latin mille, meaning one thousand (the Latin plural is milia).

    wiki/Milli-

    In Italian it goes mille --> milione. Which is og correct, but doesn’t help the situation.

    What I hate is that ppl will sometimes fuss if I use “k” prefixes.

      • Evil_Shrubbery
        10·
        5 days ago

        Bcs a mille is 1000.
        A much bigger mille is 1000000.

        One megayear would be a millenniona? :|

        million(n.)

        “ten hundred thousand, a thousand thousands,” late 14c., milioun, from Old French million (late 13c.), from Italian millione (now milione), literally “a great thousand,” augmentative of mille “thousand,” from Latin mille, which is of uncertain origin. From the start often used indefinitely for “a very great number or quantity.”

        etymonline.com/million