> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
>>
>>> crore
>>
>> I know from the dictionary that this means ten million. But is this
>> word in use anywhere outside India? Where's it come from?
>
> "Crore" is Indian English for "karod" (10 million) in Indian languages.
> Similarly,"lakh" is widely used in Indian English for identical word in Indian
> languages for 100,000."Crore" is not used outside India.
There's a long entry on the word in Hobson-Jobson:
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/ddsa/getobject_?HTML.a.1:232./projects/artf l0/databases/dicos/philologic/hobson/IMAGE/
Chris