Talk:Mile

message: 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)
thread_title:  Abbreviating "mile" 

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thread_title:  "Last Mile" 

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message: 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)
thread_title:  Origin of Mile 

message: The following:
:"In Norway and Sweden, a mil is a unit of length equal to 10 kilometres and commonly used in everyday language. However in more formal situations, such as on road signs and when there is risk of confusion with English miles, kilometres are used instead."
should be replaced by this:
:"In Norway and Sweden, a mil is a unit of length equal to 10 kilometres and commonly used in everyday language. However in all formal situations, such as on road signs and law, kilometres are used. For instance road signs are read in km (like 348 km) and the last digit rounded up and always expressed in common talk always in miles (like 35 miles!)." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.129.184.177 (talk) 06:35, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: When you wrote , did you intend to write "mils"? (no )? Meanwhile I will remove the silly "risk of confusion with English miles" since the risk must be nearly zero. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:09, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  It is a simplier habbit of Swedish miles