Re: abstractor place structures

[John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>]

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> "Millar" is like "millon", only 1000 instead of 1000000.
> I guess "thousand" is like that, too. What English doesn't have
> is a word like "mil". Compare:
> 
> tres gatos                    three cats
> diez gatos                   ten cats
> mil gatos                      *thousand cats
> un millar de gatos    a thousand cats
> un millon de gatos   a million cats

This is archaic (18th century and earlier) English, too:
"a million of men".  We still say "several millions of dollars"
sometimes rather than the normal "several million dollars".

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