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Originally Posted by Atom
It just pisses me off that anyone would express 9 trillion as 9 thousand billion. Maybe because it's a bit of extra thinking?
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We Brits get hacked off because we know that a billion is really a million million, and what you call a billion is really a milliard. Then you Americans come along with your fancy-Dan ways and start mucking about with all kinds of things, until we have to change from shillings to pence, then you give Blair the Manchurian treatment, etc. etc.
It's just not cricket, old boy. There are four farthings to the penny, and 240 pennies in a pound. What's so difficult to understand? I won't be satisfied until the UK expresses our national debt in florins.