Talk:billion with a "b"

RFD discussion: November 2021
DTLHS (talk) 02:06, 25 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Keep. If you do a search for "billion with a b" on Google the first result is a thread on the wordreference forum where some nonnative English speaker was asking what "billion with a b" refers to. So apparently there are nonnative speakers who don't understand this common expression. 99.101.56.68 02:14, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, uses a variation of Appendix:Snowclones/X with a capital Y, which could be applied to anything. PseudoSkull (talk) 02:33, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * This is not "billion with a capital b", but "billion with a b". If this were SOP it would imply that there is a word that sounds like "billion" but is spelled with a different letter "that's colonel with a c" which is not the case. 99.101.56.68 03:11, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * There is: million with an "m". And indeed, you can find hits for "million with an m" on Google Books. This is just making it clear that it's billions, not millions. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:35, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete for the reason given by PseudoSkull. — SGconlaw (talk) 03:00, 25 November 2021 (UTC)


 * I speedied it (before I noticed the RFD discussion, so restore if you must...) This really just means "billion" and they're clarifying the spelling in case you misheard or misread; it's not an idiom like "small-c conservative". This would be the same kind of thing: "I saw Rick yesterday." "Mick? How is he?" "No, Rick with an R." Equinox ◑ 06:08, 25 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Yeah, delete, it's not idiomatic, it's just ... billion, with a b rather than an m. - -sche (discuss) 05:23, 27 November 2021 (UTC)