一千元在英語裏有個通俗的叫法“a grand”，而粵語也可把一千元叫作“一叉”。根據不同的分佈特點，本文將會揭示“一千”、“一叉”只是近義詞，兩者並不等價。最後，本文將論證“叉”及其餘的金錢倍數詞為量詞。

On par with the colloquial a grand for “a thousand dollars” in English, there is the colloquial caa for cin ‘a thousand dollars’ in Cantonese. By means of distributional properties, cin and caa will be shown as synonyms, but remain nonequivalent. Finally, caa and other synonyms regarding money-multiples will be syntactically argued as classifiers.