If I'm reading it right, ten billion in short is a million ten thousands in long? That's just... odd.
Even more perplexing is that wikipedia says that the UK switched to short scale in 1974, but Hominids was published in 2002.
*shrugs* It's still a good book.
Even more perplexing is that wikipedia says that the UK switched to short scale in 1974, but Hominids was published in 2002.
*shrugs* It's still a good book.
soilent brad is PEOPLE!
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = EM2C <-- Define it!
"Uh...we don't support the Hannah Montana empire."
- My 6 year old niece
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = EM2C <-- Define it!
"Uh...we don't support the Hannah Montana empire."
- My 6 year old niece
British grammar
- 14/06/2010 07:15:43 AM
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Entities (like nations and companies) are considered to be in the plural in British
- 14/06/2010 07:38:05 AM
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One thing I've been wondering ... for, oh, the last five or six hours...
- 14/06/2010 08:32:56 AM
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Kind of but not really any more. But it's still different in continental Europe.
- 14/06/2010 08:36:40 AM
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Hmm... Long scale seems confusing
- 14/06/2010 08:49:06 AM
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Originally a billion was a million million, but we've given up on that one now. *NM*
- 14/06/2010 12:32:31 PM
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it might be an accent thing, but i think "was" sounds horrible in that context
- 14/06/2010 08:38:33 AM
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Singular nouns denoting groups can take plural verb agreement in British English.
- 14/06/2010 12:31:25 PM
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