And lo on Wed, 21 May 2008 18:02:31 +0100, Eero Ahonen  
<aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>>  Still amusing that a bi(mi)llion is officially a thousand million,  
>> linguists of the future are going to have so much fun with this.
>
> In Finnish they are miljardi (1000 million) and biljoona (million  
> million) to add some confusement :).

We did have milliard for 1e9 from the same French root until we took on  
the US system.

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