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Drbble on May 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mark Zuckerberg sells 30.2 million shares of $FB c...

It's standard English.

EwanToo on May 24, 2012 | [–]

I'm not sure it is.

MM is semi-standard English, at least in the US, because M can be confused with the M used for one thousand.

But B doesn't get confused with anything, and I've never seen BB written anywhere before this..

stephengillie on May 24, 2012 | | [–]

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Long_and_shor...

scopendo on May 24, 2012 | [–]

Not in England. At least it's new to me.

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