RE: (TV) $1,000,000,000

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

Raymond, 

As I just said in another post, I goofed.

In the Boston Sunday Globe (Magazine Section) two 
weeks ago there was a long article about how the word 
"billion" has now usurped the word "million" in the 
lexicon of 21st century discourse. It also mentioned 
how in the past the British "billion" meant a million million.

The other place I encountered the UK use of "billion" was 
in my work as a federal government employee in reading a 
somewhat dated research report that used billion in this way.

	Leo 


-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond [mailto:ray@wavewalker.freeserve.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 5:58 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) $1,000,000,000


go on Leo i'm intrigued which "newspapers" exactly did you read this in?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Casey, Leo 
Subject: RE: (TV) $1,000,000,000


> No slur was intended; it's just that I've read 
> in more than one newspaper that in England the word 
> "billion" is a synonym for [just] a million.  Leo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Allison [
> In message 
> "Casey, Leo J" writes
> >Just imagine what Television could do with one billion
> >dollars (that's $1,000,000,000 not $1,000,000 for
> >our British MM Mooners).
> 
> Yep, that's a billion over here, too!
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