Re: YAGGT (was Re: Juvenile fooleries (was Re: Neanderthal and PIE (Long!)))
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 20, 2008, 12:14 |
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On 2008-10-20 Philip Newton wrote:
> Yes, Germany quotes fuel efficiency in litres per 100 km.
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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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