Sv: Euron pga det som händer i Ukraina
Nu måste du ändå ha rört ihop siffrorna (eller språken)?
Biljon (svenska) är 1000 billions (engelska).
Men även 35 miljarder är en hel del pengar.
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America, which uses the term 'billion' to mean 1,000 million
Dollar är är från USA och även billion
I'd never heard the word milliard before coming to Europe. Milliard isn't used in the US. The word billion is used to mean a thousand million in the USA.
I found this in the online etymology dictionary:
billion
1690, from Fr. billion (originally byllion in Chuquet's unpublished "Le Triparty en la Science des Nombres", 1484; copied by De la Roche, 1520), from bi- "two" + (m)illion. A million million in Britain and Germany (numeration by groups of sixes), which was the original sense; subsequently altered in Fr. to "a thousand million" (numeration by groups of threes) and picked up in that form in U.S., "due in part to French influence after the Revolutionary War." France then reverted to the original meaning in 1948. British usage is truer to the etymology, but U.S. sense is increasingly common there in technical writing. Billionaire first recorded 1861 in Amer.Eng. The first in the world was likely John D. Rockefeller.
Lite kuriosa men naturligtvis har du rätt. I vårt språk är det miljarder.