2K1

[Saunders Honda]

WHY DO YOU KEEP SENDING MAIL TO OUR ADDRESS???????
post at saunders_honda.co.uk

PLEASE REFRAIN FROM SENDING ANYMORE

Cara Hughes
Saunders Honda
United Kingdom


-----Original Message-----
From: Drew Danielson <drew.danielson at CMU.EDU>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: 04 January 2001 16:59
Subject: Re: 2K1


>Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>>
>> many newspapers use k for 'thousand' in reporting dollar figures
>> (salaries, real estate offers/sales, etc.) in headlines.  the
>> corresponding shortcut for 'million' is of course m.
>
>In these cases, the unit is not elliptical - the convention is to
>include the unit symbol, "$", as in $50K.
>
>> this has been around for some time - exactly how long i don't
>> know - and has been adopted in other abbreviated written contexts,
>> and then into speech as well ("they're offering us 250k!").
>
>Point taken.
>