> Excuse me for being pedantic, but "tens of thousands" was a slight 
> *understatement* if the correct figure is eleven-and-a-half  
> thousands!
> 
> Dorothy 

Eh? To me (and I suspect to most other people) ten thousand would be ten
thousand, tens of thousands indicates a plural number of ten times a
thousand, so therefore a minimum of twenty thousand, therefore eleven
thousand is less.....

George "Bungle" Eycott

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