On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
> As other people have mentioned, although not explicitly, the British
> pound (and the Euro) have different sub-unit currency subdivisions,
> ie:
>
> 100 50 20 10 5 2 1
> as opposed to the US model:
>
> 100 50 25 10 5 1
> horrific.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
> Of course, the US has to give their coins cutesy names, just to
LOL. You'll have to try harder than that.
Shilling, bob, pony, monkey, quid, godiva, ton, large one, ..
The US has nothing on the UK here.
Paul
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Paul Makepeace
On 02/07/2003 at 14:48 +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
Of course, the US has to give their coins cutesy names, just to
LOL. You'll have to try harder than that.
Shilling, bob, pony, monkey, quid, godiva, ton, large one, ..
The US has nothi
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 2:48:38 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote:
PM> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
>> Of course, the US has to give their coins cutesy names, just to
PM> LOL. You'll have to try harder than that.
PM> Shilling, bob, pony, monkey, quid, godiva, ton, larg
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:17:07PM +0100, Iain Tatch wrote:
> Pick up a handful of Merkin change and you get things that say "Nickel",
> "Dime", "Quarter" with no other clue as to their monetary value. For those
> of us not brought up in the USA, even if you're aware that one's 5c and
> the other 1
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:17:07PM +0100, Iain Tatch wrote:
> Pick up a handful of Merkin change and you get things that say "Nickel",
> "Dime", "Quarter" with no other clue as to their monetary value. For those
"Quarter Dollar". Pretty obvious. The dime only says dime and I can't
remember nickel.
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Iain Tatch wrote:
> Pick up a handful of Merkin change and you get things that say "Nickel",
> "Dime", "Quarter" with no other clue as to their monetary value.
You don't have any US change handy, do you? :)
penny ($0.01): says "ONE CENT"
nickel ($0.05): says "FIVE CENT
On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, 3:49:35 PM, Paul Makepeace wrote:
PM> What is your point? That the US currency is failing somehow because it
PM> doesn't explicitly put its cents value on its coinage?
No, the point was that although there are dozens of slang words for
various monetary amounts in Briti
