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Also (possibly only amongst bankers in London): - "Yard" - £billion (derived from the french "milliard")

• Symbiote 4y ago
  Milliard was the standard British word for 1,000,000,000 until some point in the 1970s.
  • simonh 4y ago
    Then there was the British billion, which was a million million. The US version has taken over completely.
    • gerikson 4y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
    • mejutoco 4y ago
      Same in German.
  • throw0101c 4y ago
    From Numberphile, "How big is a billion?" (2012): * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ
• twic 4y ago
  Also "buck" and "bar", which I think are one and two million. Not uniquely British, but certainly used here.