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Ardith Hinton on Wed Nov 23 14:37:40 2022
Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 22.11.2022 23:56
ak>> One billion in Canada Is it as in the US or as in the UK?
AH> In the US & Canada, one billion = one thousand million.
AH> In the UK & Germany, one billion is (or once was) one million
AH> million according to my sources.
In Russia the same, BTW. :)
AH> OTOH they seem divided as to whether or not Brits use "milliard" to
AH> mean one thousand million nowadays in much the same the way a lot
AH> of physicists from continental Europe evidently do.
We use "milliard" in Russia. American billionaires are milliarders for us.
AH> Some appear to believe the latter is no longer in technical &/or
AH> common use within the UK... and according to plainenglish.co.uk the
AH> government there has followed the American convention since 1974.
AH> I've noticed similar trends WRT various other things as well.
BTW, there is no word "milliard" in the British Longman dictionary.
Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
fido.english_tutor 2022
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