quadrillion
The British quadrilion used to be 1,000,000,000 times bigger until we got fucked over by adopting the US version.
Donât you call it âtrillions millionsâ or something silly in England?
We realised how stupid going up in factors of 1000 was and dealt in squares instead.
Then everyone started talking about populations as billions BECUZ IT SOUNDZ BETTER and we had to adopt the inferior standard.
So what did you call 1,000,000,000? A thousand million?
As kids yes⌠A trillion million, too was common around here.
Yes. Any problem with that?
billion is sexier
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âThousand millionâ is a good way to remind people how insanely fucking rich having a billion dollars is. One billion doesnât sound like much, but one thousand million? Shit take his money.
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Classic British understatement never felt as good again as it did when discussing large numbers with Americans.
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Have you seen the Brits rock climbing grading system? Cracks me up every time.
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Itâs great that weâve adopted numeric prefixes for large numbers that donât actually have any numeric relation to their use.
I prefer bazzillion. Who wouldnât want a bazzillion dollars?
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The slide downhill all began when we adopted the American âgreatâ for âvery goodâ in place of âlargeâ.
Then some foreign people assumed we named it Great Britain because we think itâs brilliant.
lol
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âVery Good Britainâ has an amazing ring to it
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Fair To Middling Britain would get my vote.
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Thatâs my dog.
The tennis ball on the walker is great. The job is to get the tennis ball and kill it, right?
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Everyone knows itâs because Great Britain is a very large country.
I feel like you guys also screwed up by letting âprovincesâ become the standard word for a subnational political division even though the provinces of the UK (England, Wales, etc) are referred to in British English as âcountriesâ.