There are however some English terms that refer to time increments
larger than 24 hours.
These include (not an exhaustive list): Week(7 days), Fortnight(14
days), Month(28, 29, 30, or 31 days depending), Year(several technical
definitions but generally 365 days), Decade(10 years), Century(100
years), Millennium(1000 years), eons and ages(indeterminable long time).
<<SNIP>>
Way out of topic and just for my own curiosity*:
By the way, is there an English word for 24 hours? In Swedish we have
"dygn", which is not the same thing as "dagar". 1 dygn = 24 h, 1 dag = 1
day, 2 dagar = 2 days, 1 natt = 1 night and so on. In movies made in UK,
Australia, USA etc, they always say things like 48 hours, 72 hours etc,
never things like 43 hours or 77 hours, which make me believe that there
really is no English word for a period of 24 hours. It's easier for
us, we
just say 2 dygn, 3 dygn and so on. We don't have to multiply with
24... =)
Can "days" sometimes mean "24 h" in English? I was not sure, that's why I
put "days" within quotes in my first paragraph above...
Johnny Andersson
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