{"id":16341,"date":"2006-02-20T19:03:23","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T03:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/02\/20\/lac-1.html"},"modified":"2006-02-20T19:03:23","modified_gmt":"2006-02-21T03:03:23","slug":"lac-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/02\/20\/lac-1\/","title":{"rendered":"lac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This one isn't actually new to me now, but it was a few months ago, and I think it's a neat example of unexpected cultural differences, so I'll include it.<\/p>\n<p>\"Lac\" is an alternate spelling of \"lakh,\" which in India is a unit consisting 100,000 of something, often 100,000 Indian rupees, an amount currently equal to about $2200 US.  So house prices or salaries are sometimes specified as, for example, \"Rs. 30 lakhs\"--which is to say, 3 million rupees, currently about $70,000 US.<\/p>\n<p>What I find most interesting about this is that in the US, we don't generally measure things in tens of hundred-thousand-units per se; we measure in millions instead.  But I don't see any particularly good reason to have one of those units as a standard instead of the other; just a cultural difference (presumably rooted in history).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes, and a \"crore\" is 100 lakhs; ten million of something.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one isn&#8217;t actually new to me now, but it was a few months ago, and I think it&#8217;s a neat example of unexpected cultural differences, so I&#8217;ll include it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}