Growing up in the 50's people could only fantasise about billions and millions. These numbers just seemed far far from reality.
A good friend of mine boasted to me that his Dad was "a thousandaire". I was impressed. On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 10:35 PM Rupert Reynolds <rreyno...@cix.co.uk> wrote: > Oh yes. Only slightly ambiguous when the speaker had alergies and a blocked > nose :-) > > Roops > > On Sun, 2 Apr 2023, 11:18 Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw, < > 0000032fff1be9b4-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > We used to have the Milliard as well. > > https://www.dictionary.com/browse/milliard > > > > Lennie > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
