How do you misuse "hopefully", kendall? "Hopefully it'll be sunny tomorrow" = "I hope it'll be sunny tomorrow". What's to misuse?

CC, I think we both share the same million - 10^6 - but the billions (and subsequent numbers) are different. The use of "billion" for 10^9 is a purely American invention - there's a perfectly good English word "milliard" (although not used much these days) for that quantity. Both "million" and "milliard" come from French, and the French still use "milliard" for 10^9.

"Berk" (also spelled "burk" or "burke" occasionally) is an abbreviation of the Cockney rhyming slang "Berkshire Hunt", for c*nt (although it's interesting that "Berkshire" is pronounced "bark-shire"! :-) It's lost the Cockney root, though, so "berk" is a fairly common mild insult.

Graham.