Capitalized or not?

[Sir EvilFreeSmeg]

When talking about money, should the word billion be capitalized? Nevermind what the grammar nazis say. I think it should. Anything that large deserves to be capitalized just by it's nature.

It just looks right. $200 Billion.
$200 billion. Just doesn't have the same effect. It needs to stand out more. Billion. Billion. Maybe even made Billion. It's that impressive.

[Keldaris]

I tend to capitalize it.

[Bortaz]

I must admit, I'm indifferent.

[DurfBarian]

Do you leave it in lower case when you're talking about Turkish money?

[Freet]

Do you leave it in lower case when you're talking about Turkish money?

Or Canadian.

But really, spell it backwards for all I care. It still looks like spending the rest of my life on a beach...my beach....my beach on my island.

But I digress. :embarassed:

[LukeJames]

That would slow down the speed at which one would type billion by at least 0.00000000001% as they need to hold shift key down! Too much work.

[Jigga-Scrooge]

ten is a high number too, but i dont capitalize it.

[Evrae Altana]

How about capitalizing the entire word...BILLION.

[Sir EvilFreeSmeg]

Do you leave it in lower case when you're talking about Turkish money?

Of course I would. A billion Turkish Lira is only worth $741.565 according to Google

I might capitalize a quadrillion Lira but not a mere billion.

[Dondrei]

Only proper nouns get capitalised. It's got nothing to do with size, or "planet", "galaxy", "universe" and "googolplex" would be capitalised.