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Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 22.11.2022 23:56

  ak>> One billion in Canada Is it as in the US or as in the UK?

  AH> In the US & Canada, one billion = one thousand million.

  AH> In the UK & Germany, one billion is (or once was) one million
  AH> million according to my sources.

In Russia the same, BTW. :)

  AH> OTOH they seem divided as to whether or not Brits use "milliard" to
  AH> mean one thousand million nowadays in much the same the way a lot
  AH> of physicists from continental Europe evidently do.

We use "milliard" in Russia. American billionaires are milliarders for us.

  AH> Some appear to believe the latter is no longer in technical &/or
  AH> common use within the UK... and according to plainenglish.co.uk the
  AH> government there has followed the American convention since 1974.
  AH> I've noticed similar trends WRT various other things as well.

BTW, there is no word "milliard" in the British Longman dictionary.

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
fido.english_tutor 2022
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