When people win the lottery, they say "I won five million big ones!"
But, isn't that sentence technically wrong? Yes, they won a BIG five million, but they didn't win five million big ones. It takes five million one dollar bills to make five million, which means they should be saying "I won five million SMALL ones."
Right?
2006-11-17 09:47:03 · 6 answers · asked by I Am Legend 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
when it's that large of an amount, every dollar seems to be counted so instead of saying"i won 499999 dollars" it seems to be very big, but again, if you count it in pennies, it's 5 billion small pennies. so would a dollar be considered big? in compairaison to a dime or nickel
2006-11-17 09:49:57 · answer #1 · answered by xSarahx 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would you really be going around advertising that you won any number of "small ones"??? Not I.
I'd rather say I have 1 big one, versus 5 million small ones, but that's just me
2006-11-17 17:55:04 · answer #2 · answered by Ms.BusyBody 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think they just say big ones cuse it refers to money in all not the different kinds of bills there are, but i wouldn't know, i don't play the lottery..
2006-11-17 17:49:19 · answer #3 · answered by LittleBit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right. Now give me my points---2 small ones.
2006-11-17 17:51:18 · answer #4 · answered by True Blue 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are SOOOO right! Good question.
2006-11-17 22:07:23 · answer #5 · answered by David A 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh, yeah, whatever you said, man.
2006-11-17 17:49:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋