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How to pronounce milliard in English?

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Type of one thousand million, billion, 1000000000


in England they call one thousand million a milliard.

Examples of milliard

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It should also be noted that names of numbers above the milliard are rarely used.
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I don't contest that there were cyanobacteria three milliard years ago.
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According to you, that would put the military at $1700 milliard a year.
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It's fine to talk about having 9 milliard people with a large part of them living in slums.
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Maybe they did run out of victims and we're just seeing the gas created a milliard years ago.
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I don't think there's much tidal heating of the Moon, or that there was a milliard years ago either.
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You imply that $20 milliard will solve the AIDS problem.
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Military spending was only $670 milliard.
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A sixth of 7 milliard is about 1.2 milliard.
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More examples
  • A billion; "in England they call one thousand million a milliard"
  • 1,000,000,000 (one billion, short scale; one thousand million or milliard, yard, long scale) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. One billion can also be written as b or bn.
  • 1.000.000.000(in Europe) in USA billion.