~name{~enUS{zork}}
~desc{~enUS{
Wow, you _are_ an old-timer.  You're in a maze of twisty little passages
all different, huh?
}}

~name{~enUS{zorkmid}}
~desc{~enUS{
The currency of the Flathead Empire, now defunct.  Zorkmids are no longer
worth anything, and never were outside the old text game "Zork".
}}

~name{~enUS{ire}}
~desc{~enUS{
The word "ire" means "anger" or "wrath".

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and
 quick to anger."
                                  -- Tolkien
}}

~name{~enUS{xyzzy}}
~desc{~enUS{
That command isn't usable in this game.  It's from a very, very old text
adventure game.  The game's still available on the web, naturally -- it's
open source now, so it'll never die.
}}


~name{~enUS{million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion,
            sextillion, hextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion,
            nonnillion, decillion, ondecillion, dodecillion, duodecillion,
            american billion, british billion, uk billion, english billion,
            US billion, USA billion}}
~desc{
  ~enUS{

If it ever matters for any reason, we use the US convention that
1,000,000 is one million and 1,000,000,000 is one billion.  That is to
say that a billion is a thousand million, as the Americans do it,
rather than a million million as the British do.  Similarly, a
trillion is a thousand billion rather than a million billion.

Note that American numeric conventions are used, so 10.000 means ten
and 10,000 means ten thousand.  Apologies to our European players.  If
there's a great outcry, I suppose we could fix that at some point.

}}