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by dewclin 1196 days ago
Also (possibly only amongst bankers in London):

- "Yard" - £billion (derived from the french "milliard")

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Milliard was the standard British word for 1,000,000,000 until some point in the 1970s.
Then there was the British billion, which was a million million. The US version has taken over completely.
Same in German.
From Numberphile, "How big is a billion?" (2012):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-52AI_ojyQ

Also "buck" and "bar", which I think are one and two million. Not uniquely British, but certainly used here.