On 28 May 2009, at 15:01, deka wrote:
> Hi, I am a Brazilian girl and I have a doubt abour numbers in English.
> I have a book in English where there is a tabel on cumulative civilian
> death toll in wars. They put "100s africans, 1000s civil war..." and I
> would like to know the meaning of the little "s" after the numbers.
> Tanks very much.

100s reads as 'hundreds'
1000s reads as 'thousands'


Ellie

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