Wow Bascule...thanks for explaining that. I
feel.....edified.
Dacia
--- bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Umm bascule, could you please expound on the term
> "old money"?
> >
> > Eunice
> 'old money' refers to the strange british mix of
> imperial and metric
> measurments used at the same time, before
> decimalisation we had 240
> pence to the pound and people use the phrase 'old
> money ' to refer to
> the fact that they are using older measurements
> whether financial or
> otherwise, it's a sort of old fogey affectation that
> i drop into
> sometimes when my ire's up.
>
> bascule
>
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