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Possibly because Americans were so keen to call themselves billionaires they lowered the requirement.
Similar to how they pronounce "Aluminium" the same as "Platinum" to make it sound like a precious metal.
This isn't a criticism. If I'm being kind the real reason is that less separation between "million" and "billion" is functionally more useful, as well as aspirational.
We spell that word aluminum, not aluminium. That's why we pronounce it that way. Why we spell it differently? No clue.
Also it's not just a billion. A trillion is a thousand billion on this side of the pond, and has been since well before any Americans were even close to being billionaires. We just use a smaller standard for counting, but that's also the standard French and Latin used, so I don't think it has anything to do with us.
Funfact the British USE to say that word the way Americans do now. Then changed later. Americans way of say aluminum is actually the original and accurate way that the British invented.
Why y'all changed is beyond me. We are using it the way YOU wanted us to originally.
Same with the word soccer. The Brits invented it, and then changed their minds and now go around telling people its football, not soccer. Motherfuckers, this is your fault!