Talk:Mile

It is a simplier habbit of Swedish miles

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!)."

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Geographic mile = 1/15 grad, or degree?

In Mile#Comparison table it says one "geographic mile" is "1⁄15 equatorial grads" (1 grad = 0.9°); however the stated value (7,420.439 m) does not match this value; looks more like 1⁄15 equatorial degree, which matches the description in Mile#Geographical mile. Could someone clarify this? For now, I'm marking that as {{Dubious}}. —Cousteau (talk) 11:06, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Abbreviating "mile"

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)

"Last Mile"

Supply with electricity, gas, telecom, web, postal service to a single house or flat or address. --Helium4 (talk) 20:26, 14 August 2019 (UTC)

"63360" listed at Redirects for discussion

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)

Chisholm broken ref

@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)