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Re: YAGGT (was Re: Juvenile fooleries (was Re: Neanderthal and PIE (Long!)))

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Monday, October 20, 2008, 12:14
On 2008-10-20 Philip Newton wrote:
> Yes, Germany quotes fuel efficiency in litres per 100 km. >
Sweden quotes fuel efficiency in liters per 10 km, since we have redefined _en mil_ == 10 km, and it's convenient to quote "liter per mil" or colloquially "liter milen", where I suspect _milen_ descends from the old definite dative singular _milenom_. /BP

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