On Friday 05 September 2008 09:45:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Lanny Marcus <> scribbled on Friday, September 05, 2008 12:18 AM:
> >> You have been approved for payment the sum of ?1,000,000:00 (One
> >> Million Great British Pounds)
> >
> > Like everyone else on the list, we could use the $....
>
> "Great British Pound"? I didn't know UK stopped using Pounds Sterling...
> ;-)

They haven't, but GBP was the recognised way of defining it in telex days :-).  
Those machines didn't have a '£' sign.

Anne

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