20th Edition of Record Day - 30th of August, 2025

Choose a date for the 20th Edition of Record Day

  • July 19th 2025

    Votes: 7 41.2%

  • July 26th 2025

    Votes: 6 35.3%

  • August 2nd 2025

    Votes: 7 41.2%

  • August 9th 2025

    Votes: 9 52.9%

  • August 16th 2025

    Votes: 9 52.9%

  • August 23rd 2025

    Votes: 8 47.1%

  • August 30th 2025

    Votes: 10 58.8%

  • September 6th 2025

    Votes: 3 17.6%

  • September 13th 2025

    Votes: 5 29.4%
  • Total voters
    17
  • Poll closed .
DaveRattlehead said:
And also, billion has a different meaning...

Billion in Spanish is 1.000.000.000.000 :lol:
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Oh yeah, that's the case for all the European languages. But the Americans had to switch it all up, and then dragged the rest of the Anglosphere along with them :mefiant:
 
Canadas weird with languages. We use European English but Franco Ontariens have their own French dialect.
 
PluMGMK said:
Oh yeah, that's the case for all the European languages. But the Americans had to switch it all up, and then dragged the rest of the Anglosphere along with them :mefiant:
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So they decided "hey Jim, let's divide all the numbers by 1000 and give them the same name"... "Great idea Jim! Give this man a raise!"
 
So in European languages (and older European English, not anymore), it was like
Thousand = 103
Million = 106
Milliard = 109
Billion = 1012
Billiard = 1015
Trillion = 1018
Trilliard = 1021
etc.

But the Americans decided to take out the "-iard" steps and just condense the whole thing down
 
Well there's no such thing as a Zillion, so there wouldn't be a Zilliard either :mefiant:
 
Well, "million" was derived from "mille" as meaning "mille mille", but then English borrowed the French term instead of coming up with its own "thousand thousand" term. So if English seems less confusing, it's just because it borrowed one French term but not the other ;)
 
It's basically English + French, it was devloped over time with our culture with us French ontariens. I think this came about after the French ban of 1912, as children started to mix the two due to them not learning french at school past the second grade.
 
Ah OK, bona fide Frenglish!

Aaand I've reached the total number of posts I made last year. Time for a bathroom break :hap:
 
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