Messages in this thread | | | From | Svein Ove Aas <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: [PATCH] Change all occurrences of 'flavour' to 'flavor' | Date | Fri, 8 Aug 2003 18:58:27 +0200 |
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fredag 8. august 2003, 13:04, skrev Adrian Bunk: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:15:30AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 08 2003, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > I know it wasn't purely cosmetic but i just wish we could use the > > > proper spelling instead of US English. No i'm not trolling. > > > > You might want to be, but you are ;) > > > > US English is clearly more optimized. > > E.g. you need less than 1/1000 of the money you need for one billion > (UK English) English pounds for one billion (US English) dollars. > > OTOH, it sounds funny that the USA are indebted with several trillion > (US English) dollars.
How so?
In Norwegian you'd be right; we have "Million - Milliard - Billion - Billiard" and so forth.
But UK English? How does that work? I'm having difficulties imagining you saying "one milliard pounds".
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