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The usual abbreviations for million and billion are M (or m) and B (or b); you may also encounter Mn (mn) and Bn (bn), particularly with commodities other than money.
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The earliest known use of the noun B.M. is in the 1870s. OED's earliest evidence for B.M. is from 1870, in a letter by ‘George Eliot’, novelist (real name Mary Ann Evans). B.M. is formed within English, as an initialism.
That's the basic meaning of N.B. — the abbreviated form of the Latin phrase "nota bene" (literally, "note well"). N.B. still appears in some forms of academic writing as a way of steering readers' attention toward something particularly important.
The abbreviation N.B. (or NB) comes from the Latin phrase nota bene, meaning "mark (note) well," and it is used to tell the reader that something is important. Instead of vengeance Hahn took hush money and, for seven years (N.B. the magical number), she hushed.
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