How come us British people are saying American words more and more, whilst the original British terms are dying out.

Like British people are calling them 'Cup Cakes'.

And now even on the BBC 1 Billion refers to A thousand million rather than a Million Million.

Why?

Because American culture and ma** media are so prevalent in the UK, and British culture is almost nonexistent here.


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^^^ because us Americanos are awesome :P


I love it when it rains.........

and yet i use english term now, but really, cause were cooler than you's!

I prefer British English




FUCK US! WE'RE FROM VEGAS!

what's the British version of cupcake?


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Not-so-innocent church boy at your service!

Isn't it easier to say a billion than a thousand million. If it helps, I like the term bloody brilliant.

A million million...

instead of basically saying a million more than a million we simplified it by just calling a "billion".

I mean cm'on...a million million...*slowly shakes my head*


"My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it."

fairy cake!!

Having a single word for the quantity 1,000,000,000 the way we have one for the quantities 1,000, 1,000,000, and 1,000,000,000,000 only makes sense.

Compare:

Thousand, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion

with:

Thousand, million, thousand million, billion, thousand billion, million billion


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dude a million million sounds funny.




FUCK US! WE'RE FROM VEGAS!

but a billion is amillion million