http://www.espnfc.co.uk/barclays-premier-league/story/2484581/manchester-uni... On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
The small calorie and large Calorie are distinguished by capitalization — not ideal, but it works.
The old meaning of billion in England has been almost completely phased out by now, to avoid international misunderstandings in fields like diplomacy, science, and mathematics.
—Dan
Rich wrote:
If you allow Nutrition and Chemistry as dialects, "calorie". Curiously, the ratios billion:billion and calorie:calorie are both 1000.
James Propp wrote
The word "billion" means different things in two different dialects of English (British and American). Can anyone give other examples where one number word means two different things into two languages or dialects?
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