English term
Colombia
Experience and reliability
Native in: English (Variants: US, British) 
, Spanish (Variants: Colombian, Latin American)
Works in: Spanish to English
(1,000,000,000) One thousand million
| 4 +11 | (1,000,000,000) One billion |
Billh
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| 4 -3 | 1 milliard |
Doaa Alnajjar
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Nov 18, 2013 14:23: philgoddard changed "Language pair" from "Spanish to English" to "English"
Non-PRO (1): Edith Kelly
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(1,000,000,000) One billion
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philgoddard
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Firas Allouzi
: I asked my English wife she agrees :)
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Jack Doughty
: This is OK in UK English now. Before WWII a billion in UK English meant 1,000,000,000,000 but after that we came to accept the US version of a billion: a thousand million.
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Edward Tully
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Henk Sanderson
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Jenni Lukac (X)
: I really appreciate the fact that someone asked this question and so many responded.
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Thanks Jenni.
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Edith Kelly
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Thanks EK
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Jean-Claude Gouin
: ONE BILLION ...
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Thanks.
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Tony M
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Thanks Tony.
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Rachel Fell
: but I might equally say a thousand million, esp. if for clarification
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Charlesp
: make it simple
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Canada
World-Class Arabic Language Expert
Native in: Arabic , English
Works in: Arabic to English, English to Arabic, Arabic, and 1 more.
1 milliard
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Jean-Claude Gouin
: Vous avez fais la même erreur que je fais trop souvent. Vous traduisez mais le demandeur voulait une précision sur l'anglais ...
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Yes, maybe I have to stick to the asker's choices only. However, I just wanted to share a piece of information.
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Charlotte Farrell
: never used
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You never used it, but it is in use all over the world. Just google it. Thanks.
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Charlesp
: "milliard" is essentially non-existent in post-1997 English - so if the translation was of an archaic text, it would verk.
//very old or old-fashioned. archaic = obsolete, out of date
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Would you please explain what do you mean by "archectic text"?/ I know archaic but there is no such thing as archectic that you have edited to archaic, but you still need to edit "verk" to "work". Thanks for changing your neutral comment to disagree!!
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Cilian O'Tuama
: I'd say ENS don't use the word milliard.
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Discussion
1.34 billion is fine.
1,340 million is fine, especially in the context of comparison with, say, 650 million.
BUT 1 billion 340 million sounds very peculiar eg. pick billions or millions, but don't make million a sub-unit.