Quote from: Andrij on 30 October, 2008, 02:23:08 pmQuote from: andygates on 30 October, 2008, 01:07:59 pmMilliard is obsoletePerhaps in English.When I starting having increasing contact with people from Ukraine I was a bit puzzled by their use of the word мільярд (milliard) where I expected them to use більйон (billion). I feel safe in assuming the same holds true in Russian, Belarusian and most (all?) of the languages of the former USSR.Thousands of millions from the Ukraine eh?All I seem to get is contact from people in Nigeria but they're stuck down in the tens of millions of dollar range:-"$22,000,000 (TWENTY TWO MILLION US DOLLARS)"
Quote from: andygates on 30 October, 2008, 01:07:59 pmMilliard is obsoletePerhaps in English.When I starting having increasing contact with people from Ukraine I was a bit puzzled by their use of the word мільярд (milliard) where I expected them to use більйон (billion). I feel safe in assuming the same holds true in Russian, Belarusian and most (all?) of the languages of the former USSR.
Milliard is obsolete