Anglo-American communications studies

Steve Mynott steve at tightrope.demon.co.uk
Tue Jan 9 01:40:29 PST 2001


Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> writes:

> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, David Honig wrote:
> 
> >At 08:17 AM 1/8/01 -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
> >>and there are very few opportunities for real misunderstanding. We know
> >
> >The meaning of 'billion' differs by three orders of magnitude 
> >across the pond.  That's plenty of room for confusion :-) 

No it doesn't 1,000 million is in more common use now.

> And in the US, "billiards" is a game played with cues and balls 
> on a felt-covered slate table.  In the UK, it's also a very large 
> number.  Thankfully, so large that that definition rarely comes 

I have never heard "billiards" used as a number.

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