This is been very interesting, but no one has mentioned billions and trillions. When I was a young, I learned that the UK million was the same as US, but billion was a million millions (not just a thousand million) and a trillion was a million billions and so on. i guess It makes a difference when you're talking about national debt (cue Senator Everett Dirksen). Anyway, UK switched to the thousands- based 'illions in 1974.
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