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The article claims (unsourced): "The mile was usually abbreviated m. in the past but is now sometimes written as mi to avoid confusion with the metre". When I went to school (in England, in the 1960s mostly), we had to do things like "Divide 2 miles 4 furlongs and 1 chain by 7". In writing the answer, 'mile' was always abbreviated "ml." (and probably "mls." in the plural); the first time I ever saw the "mi" abbreviation was a road sign to Travers City, in the Michigan lower peninsula. But I have been unable to find any clear sources showing this, and actually I did find a book printed in Britain in the 19th century which used "mi." So I was wrong in assuming this was a total American invention. But I do not think the abbreviation "m." was ever used, except perhaps in cases of extreme space constrictions. Old-fashioned road signs in the UK (and I suppose current ones, but I haven't been there for a while) only ever showed miles as bare numbers. The "m" then appeared from the time of the first motorways, about 5 years before the beginning of the switch to the metric system (1965-1975, remember?). So I do not think the article is accurate, but I am not sure how to reword it. Imaginatorium ( talk) 09:50, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
Supply with electricity, gas, telecom, web, postal service to a single house or flat or address. -- Helium4 ( talk) 20:26, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect 63360. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 January 19#63360 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. YorkshireLad ✿ (talk) 23:06, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
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LlywelynII: A long time ago (
12 April 2015) you appear to have been the first to add 'The origins of English units are "extremely vague and uncertain",{{sfnp|Chisholm|1864|p=8}}
' although that might have come from elsewhere? At any rate,
this edit by
Tangerine Grits points out that the Chisholm reference is not working because it goes nowhere when clicking on it. I'm hoping you can fix it.
Johnuniq (
talk) 23:59, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
Not mentioned in this article is that the word mile derives from mille passum which was latin for thousand paces, it was not defined any other way resulting in mile units all over Europe of varying lengths until the metric system was adopted. I think this information need to be included. Avi8tor ( talk) 12:46, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
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The article claims (unsourced): "The mile was usually abbreviated m. in the past but is now sometimes written as mi to avoid confusion with the metre". When I went to school (in England, in the 1960s mostly), we had to do things like "Divide 2 miles 4 furlongs and 1 chain by 7". In writing the answer, 'mile' was always abbreviated "ml." (and probably "mls." in the plural); the first time I ever saw the "mi" abbreviation was a road sign to Travers City, in the Michigan lower peninsula. But I have been unable to find any clear sources showing this, and actually I did find a book printed in Britain in the 19th century which used "mi." So I was wrong in assuming this was a total American invention. But I do not think the abbreviation "m." was ever used, except perhaps in cases of extreme space constrictions. Old-fashioned road signs in the UK (and I suppose current ones, but I haven't been there for a while) only ever showed miles as bare numbers. The "m" then appeared from the time of the first motorways, about 5 years before the beginning of the switch to the metric system (1965-1975, remember?). So I do not think the article is accurate, but I am not sure how to reword it. Imaginatorium ( talk) 09:50, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
Supply with electricity, gas, telecom, web, postal service to a single house or flat or address. -- Helium4 ( talk) 20:26, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect 63360. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 January 19#63360 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. YorkshireLad ✿ (talk) 23:06, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
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LlywelynII: A long time ago (
12 April 2015) you appear to have been the first to add 'The origins of English units are "extremely vague and uncertain",{{sfnp|Chisholm|1864|p=8}}
' although that might have come from elsewhere? At any rate,
this edit by
Tangerine Grits points out that the Chisholm reference is not working because it goes nowhere when clicking on it. I'm hoping you can fix it.
Johnuniq (
talk) 23:59, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
Not mentioned in this article is that the word mile derives from mille passum which was latin for thousand paces, it was not defined any other way resulting in mile units all over Europe of varying lengths until the metric system was adopted. I think this information need to be included. Avi8tor ( talk) 12:46, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
The following:
should be replaced by this: