WHY WE CALLED THOUSAND AS - " K "...?

Still, you're clearly not alone, If you're confused about the letter designation that stands for thousand. utmost of us know that the letter ‘ k ’ is used to denote a thousand in everyday language but have infrequently bothered to know why it's so. From talking about plutocrat to the number of views and responses on social media, ‘ thousand ’ is substituted by k in utmost cases, and one of the most constantly asked questions on the internet is ‘ why is thousand shortened as ‘ k ’. Let us find out the origins of this trend. 

 

 The Western world has been told a lot by the ancient Greek and Roman societies and their traditions. The roots of this particular trend also lie in ancient Greek culture. The story begins with the Greek term ‘ chilioi ’ which means ‘ thousand. ’

The Greeks, on the other hand, used this word in a broader sense and signified “ plural of uncertain affinity", say a thousand. The word chilioi is therefore a close restatement of 1000 and stands for an unknown length of time and an each- encompassing absoluteness, rather than a nonfictional thousand. 

This is occasionally attributed to a verse in the Holy Bible “ And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand times." The Bible has of course been restated multiple times. The reference to a thousand times in the restated ultramodern English interpretation doesn't relate to a thousand times. It actually refers to a period of time that's unknown. 

 

 

 The Greek word Chilioi was shortened to kilo by the French. also came the metric system, which introduced the kilo as a unit of 1000. Soon later, new terms similar as kiloliter, kilogram, kilotonne, and so on were chased to relate to 1000 liters and so on. 

 As a result, people each around the world began eliding thousand with the letter k and that's how we started following this trend. 

(ARTICLE  CREDITS - news18.com)

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