From an ad for my senator: "... We make more than a half million guitar strings a day ..."
They say "a half million". But I hear "uh half million" and it sounds so dumb.
Anyway, the units are not half-millions. The units are millions. So you don't say "a half million". You say "half a million". That way the units are right.
Besides it just sounds better:
"... We make more than half a million guitar strings a day ..."
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Right.
But a guitar has only six (or sometimes twelve) strings. Why are our politicians making so many strings? Isn't this just an another example of wasteful government spending? :)
Apparently, I have no response. :)
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