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Swimming at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2023
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1 minute ago, Quasit said:

There used to be the word 'milliard' in the past in Britain but they adopted the US system of saying billion for 'thousand million' in the 1970s. 

So not only has British English become so confusing due to many cultures' influence in the past but more recently to US customs as well. 

Thank you so much for this information. This is so interesting :clap:

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Swimming at the Aquatics WA World Championships 2023
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4 minutes ago, Quasit said:

I assume you're thinking in Swedish numerals? English is different.

 

ENG million = SWE miljon

ENG billion = SWE miljard

ENG trillion = SWE biljon

Wow thank you :clap:

 

I really learned something new here. :yikes:

 

Just a question: doesn’t milliard exist ??

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Swimming at the Aquatics LEN European Championships 2022
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Absolutely ridiculous! Sara Junevik is out even if she had the 4th best qualification time. Why? Yes because Sweden is only allowed to have two swimmers in the semifinals. Sjöström and Hansson were better then poor Junevik is out. So now swimmer with worse time qualify just because they are from another country. This is not fair. :(

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