Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:51:42 PDT
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: H Re: Was Getting screened / Currency of the realm
Look, it all used to be very easy:
two farthings make a halfpenny (pronounced 'hape'ny')
two halfpennies make a penny
three pennies make a threepenny (thrup'ny) bit
a threepenny bit and a penny make a groat
two threepenny bits make a sixpenny bit, or a tanner
two tanners or three groats make a shilling, or bob
two shillings makes a two bob bit, or a florin
a florin and a tanner make half a crown (or half a dollar when I was a kid)
two half crowns make a crown
two crowns make a ten bob note
two ten bob notes make a quid
a quid and a shilling make a guinea
No problem at all...the new decimal system was so complicated it took two
years to implement (and we still haven't properly got the weights and
measures sorted out)
And yes, there were four dollars to the pound when I were but a lad...and
then that Harry Wilson went and devalued the pound...
Neil
(sadly remembering the days when you could take a young lady to the cinema,
visit the pub, and stop for fish and chips on the way home and *still* have
change for a ten bob note)
p.s. as the student will clearly see from the above, three and fourpence is
obviousely half of six and eightpence, which is what you get when you share
a quid among three kids! (which you can't do in decimal)
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: H Re: Was Getting screened / Currency of the realm
>Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:36:11 -0700
>
>Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:31:36 EDT
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: H Re: Was Getting screened / Currency of the realm
>
>In a message dated 5/25/2000 10:45:44 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >
> > Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:44:05 +0100
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: H Re: Getting a new libretto screen.
> >
> >
> > > a = millions of quids
> > > b = three shillings and fourpence
> >
> > Now THAT's gonna confuse our left-of-atlantic friends.
> >
> > You might as well have said:
> > "Half a crown, and three farthings"
> >
> > Talking of which:- Someone settle an argument, please
> >
> > What is a penny in US currency?
> >
> > Rob
> >
>100th of a dollar, US$0.01, one cent, copper, (except 1943 when made of
>zinc)
>good for making up tax on purchases only. When but a child it purchased
>five
>pieces of taffy wrapped in wax paper at the corner store. Now seen on the
>ground at various places and only picked up by small children if their
>mother
>is not looking (Don't touch that, you don't know where is has been, it may
>have germs on it, I just got you clean, stay that way, here let me clean
>that
>smug off you face, Mom spits into her hankie and performs the deed, Gads,
>how
>did I survive?) "Ah, yes my dear, anyone who hates kids and dogs can't be
>all
>bad." In my best W. C. Fields.
>
>Quid: now about US1.50, was US$5.00 when I learned conversions.
>
>Shillings:?
>
>Fourpence:?
>
>Half a crown:?
>
>farthings:?
>
>For Rob:
>
>US, 2 bits:?
>
>4 bits:?
>
>6 bits:?
>
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