> 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
