> Except that British usage of billion now consistently conforms to the American
> usage. The dictionaries are behind the times on that. And we all know that
> English is defined by usage, not by committee nor by dictionary. So a billion
> in English is one thousand million, not one million million. You really can't
> argue with common usage.

Okay. Enough said. I got a lot of flack for billion = 1,000 million.
When I checked dic., unique American.

Oh well.

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