Talk:Milliard

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Have never encountered the phrase 'Milliard' in the UK.

'billion' used to refer to a million million in the UK, but the US meaning of a thousand million has displaced that.

Probably should be mentioned in the article then. I've only ever encountered "milliard" in works dating from the 1930s, it might well be an extinct word by now. - Hephaestos 00:30, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I have heard it a few times - not frequently, but on a fairly regular basis. It certainly seems to be on its way out though, and the American use "billion" is definitely becoming more common (sadly - it's far harder to work out the size of numbers... million² = "Bi(-mi)llion; million³ = "Tri(mi)llion"; etc). Grutness

See my post on Talk:Billion where I give examples of use dated 2001 and more recently. There are government documents using the word back in the 1960s, also I believe SI units specfied it back in the 1970s. -Wikibob | Talk 23:47, 2004 Nov 21 (UTC)

This was a single usage by a South African pastor back in 2001. The Australian usage you mentioned was recanted. Please give links / refs to your beliefs of SI usage, etc. Otherwise, it does indeed look very much like an obsolete word. Ian Cairns 01:15, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Text altered slightly to reflect the changes that have been made at billion. [[User:Grutness|Grutness ^talk ]] 13:32, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal to move to Wiktionary

Why the term "milliard", but not the term "billion" ???