Truer words never said. A person who doesn't understand the difference between a billion and a trillion doesn't need to be voting.
Or they could be part Brit (old time).
Then there would be genuine confusion.
oxforddictionaries.com
In British English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000), while in American English it has always equated to a thousand million (i.e. 1,000,000,000). British English has now adopted the American figure, though, so that a billion equals a thousand million in both varieties of English.
The same sort of change has taken place with the meaning of trillion. In British English, a trillionused to mean a million million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000). Nowadays, it's generally held to be equivalent to a million million (1,000,000,000,000), as it is in American English.
All those scary zeros…
And the US debt.
Now to figure out why the damn yanks leave the 'U' out of words like color… |
