[plug] billion (was Unix Epoch: 1 billion seconds breakfast function.)

[John Knight]

This I'm well aware of due to all the feedback from when I was asking what 
sort of spelling people would prefer for the en_GB translation of KDE.

I previously didn't have time to explain myself more effectively. The 
English language certainly is "frenchied" but I can see the US using 10^9 
simply because the English didn't.

>
>On Mon,  3 Sep 2001 12:15, John Knight wrote:
> >
> > I can see why the Americans used the French version, as the US dialect 
>is
> > based around being independent from English.
>
>Actually, it is the English usage that is Frenchified.  It was the style of
>the times to make the language seem more dignified.  When Webster wrote his
>dictionary he chose to simplify the spelling of certain words and to make
>American English distinct from English English.
>
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