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Silak12 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Thousands or thousand of an inch?

Hi! everyone.
Could you tell me, why is it that we use plural-s at the end of thousands and hundreths such as in the sentences below?
: Calibre is measured in thousands of an inch.
: Calibre is measured in inches for canons and hundreths of an inch for small guns.
Thanks!
  

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These are both incorrectly spelled. It should be: thousandths of an inch hundredths of an inch "thousandths of an inch" is the plural of "(a) thousandth of an inch", and similarly for the second one. Your question is essentially the same as asking why we say "measured in miles", for example.

— GPY

  • These are both incorrectly spelled.
  • It should be: thousandths of an inch hundredths of an inch "thousandths of an inch" is the plural of "(a) thousandth of an inch", and similarly for the second one.
  • Your question is essentially the same as asking why we say "measured in miles", for example.
  • Using the plural is logical when the measurement could come to any number of miles.
  • What else could you say?
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These are both incorrectly spelled. It should be:

thousandths of an inch
hundredths of an inch

"thousandths of an inch" is the plural of "(a) thousandth of an inch", and similarly for the second one. Your question is essentially the same as asking why we say "measured in miles", for example. Using the plural is logical when the measurement could come to any numb
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