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Perhaps related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales?
by minikites 8y ago
Perhaps related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales?
- Symbiote 8y agoUnlikely, the long scale form has been obsolete in Britain for decades. I've heard people say things like "thousand million", but I've never heard "milliard", and never heard "billion" to mean 10¹².