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Re: Space Shuttle Costs, Billions, Wordplay, Homely Yankees
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Wed, 16 Dec 1998 00:24:54 GMT
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Peter Hesketh <pbh@^AntiSpam^phesk.demon.co.uk>
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In article <179AA48D1741D211821700805FFE24184A886B@HQMAIL02>, Tom Pierce
<tomp@citrix.com> writes
210,000,000 English language speakers in USA

Are you trying to say that Americans speak English?  Bob Bryson and
Alastair Cook are the only two Americans I have ever heard who can speak
English.
--
Regards - Peter Hesketh, Mynyddbach, Mon.
Forty reasons why a dog is better than a woman: number 13
"Anyone can get a good-looking dog."



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  RE: Space Shuttle Costs, Billions, Wordplay, Homely Yankees
 
Useless clarification on the billion thing: To Yanks, 'billion' means one thousand times a million (1,000,000,000) -- we use what is commonly referred to as an erroneous system that used multiples of a thousand rather than a million, as was (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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