MDMAlliance said:
pr3st00 said:
areason said:
it is greater then 1 hence not singular allowing you to add the s at the end.
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You're right (therefore I'm wrong):
http://www.woodwardenglish.com/million-or-millions/
For an unspecified ammount which is still in the millions, we say millions indeed. Similar reason why we say "one million and a half", in this case it's exactly one million (plus half one).
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Not sure if you're saying what I think you're saying, but if you want to say an unspecified amount that is less than 2,000,000 and more than 1,000,000, you don't say "millions." You would say that it's "over 1 million."
So if the population of a city is 1,350,000, you could say that the population is "over 1 million." Usually people take that as less than 2 million. If you say the population is "in the millions," they would think it would be at the very least 2m or more. Usually people would think like 5m.
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That's the case for my native language, Portuguese. Whatever unity you're using should be in accordance to what comes before the comma:
1,9 milhao (or 1,9 million)
and
2,1 milhoes (or 2,1 millions)
What I understood from reading the link I provided is that English works differently.
